{"id":446933,"date":"2026-08-29T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446933\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:44:13","slug":"1-person-dead-after-fiery-southeast-fresno-crash-knocks-power-out-firefighters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446933\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person dead after fiery southeast Fresno crash knocks power out, firefighters say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787982253_967_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 29, 2026 1:13AM<\/p>\n<p>A person is dead following a fiery solo car crash in southeast Fresno on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A person is dead following a fiery solo car crash in southeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno Fire Department says the crash happened Friday just before 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of Willow and Iowa avenues, north of Tulare Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say the vehicle knocked out a power pole and its power lines fell onto the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When firefighters arrived, the car was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities have not released any additional information on the person killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both directions of Tulare and Willow have been blocked to traffic. Drivers are advised to find alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to PG&amp;E&#8217;s outage map, as of 5:40 p.m. Friday, at least 3,000 residents are without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 29, 2026 1:13AM A person is dead following a fiery solo car crash in southeast Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[177017,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-446933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-177017","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446933","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=446933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}