{"id":447289,"date":"2026-08-29T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447289\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:44:20","slug":"1-person-dead-after-fiery-southeast-fresno-crash-knocks-power-out-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447289\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person dead after fiery southeast Fresno crash knocks power out, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fiery crash could be seen throughout the area after a sedan collided with a power pole at the intersection of Willow and Iowa Avenues around 4:30 in southeast Fresno Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The impact knocked out power for thousands of customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Fresno Police, the impact sheared off the pole from its base, and the energized power lines fell on the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We do know he exited his vehicle following the collision and approach the wires, and we don&#8217;t know if he attempted to move the wires or inadvertently touch the wires at this time. We&#8217;re still speaking with additional witnesses but it was at that point a fire was ignited,&#8221; said Fresno Police Lt. Justin Hoagland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Fresno Fire crews arrived, they found the car fully engulfed in flames, with power lines arcing on top of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We did have Fresno Fire Hazmat personnel arrive to the scene the same time we did and they were able to extinguish the flames,&#8221; said Lt. Hoagland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The aftermath of the flames left behind a charred carcass of the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was then when Fresno Fire made a deadly discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It was at that time that we located an individual outside of the vehicle who was deceased,&#8221; said Lt. Hoagland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash knocked out power for 3,000 customers in the area and forced police to close Tulare and Willow Avenues in both directions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police reminding drivers to avoid any hanging wires and call 911 if you come across a downed wire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For news updates, follow Christina Lopez on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChristinaABC30\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CLopezABC30\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/christinalopezreports\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fiery crash could be seen throughout the area after a sedan collided with a power pole at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,3423,177131,114,113,125865],"class_list":["post-447289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-fire","tag-fresno-fire-hazmat","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-hoagland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447289","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=447289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}