{"id":466333,"date":"2026-09-17T03:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466333\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:46:16","slug":"fire-prompts-brief-evacuation-of-county-office-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466333\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire prompts brief evacuation of county office in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TM Generic fire 1.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Fresno Fire Department truck at the scene of a fire.\" alt=\"Generic Fresno Fire Department photo art that is easier to search.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Fresno Fire Department truck at the scene of a fire.<\/p>\n<p>                Thaddeus Miller<\/p>\n<p>            tmiller@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n<p>A fire in an underground parking garage prompted an evacuation from a Fresno County government office.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno Fire Department spokesperson Josh Sellers said a fire broke out at the parking garage near Tulare Street and Van Ness Avenue around 9 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A fire sprinkler system helped keep the fire under control as firefighters worked to access the blaze with hose lines, Sellers said.<\/p>\n<p>One car was damaged and no one was injured, though the garage filled with smoke.<\/p>\n<p>About two dozen people were evacuated from offices at the Fresno Council of Governments building. The old Club One Casino and Radisson Hotel are vacant and weren\u2019t impacted, Sellers said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789616776_734_IMG_4053.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nick Fenley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and joined The Bee in 2025.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno Fire Department truck at the scene of a fire. Thaddeus Miller tmiller@fresnobee.com A fire in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-466333","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\/466333","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=466333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}