{"id":433455,"date":"2026-08-15T04:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433455\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:18:13","slug":"11-year-old-girl-killed-in-fresno-county-house-fire-identified-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433455\/","title":{"rendered":"11-Year-Old Girl Killed in Fresno County House Fire Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0The person killed in a house fire in Fresno County on Thursday has been identified as 11-year-old Kayla Cruz Ledesma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire broke out at the home in Laton just after 11 a.m. on Gonser Street between Summit Avenue and Murphy Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say Ledesma was napping and home alone when it started.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fresno County Fire, the blaze destroyed an RV parked next to the house. Flames also threatened nearby homes and spread to vegetation, prompting a response from multiple agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As the family tries to figure out their next steps, assistance is coming from both relief organizations and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the report by KMJ\u2019s Liz Kern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3441\/files\/2026\/08\/lk-laton-fire-id-katyla-ledesma.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3441\/files\/2026\/08\/lk-laton-fire-id-katyla-ledesma.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0The person killed in a house fire in Fresno County on Thursday has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-433455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}