{"id":468329,"date":"2026-09-18T21:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468329\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:28:27","slug":"underground-downtown-fresno-parking-garage-evacuated-due-to-car-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468329\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground Downtown Fresno Parking Garage Evacuated Due to Car Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Crews are working to clear the smoke after a fire started Wednesday morning in an underground parking garage in Downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The call came in just after 9 o\u2019clock this morning about a fire on Van Ness near Tulare Street below the old Club One Casino and Radisson Hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fire crews say a sprinkler head kept the fire contained to one car, which was a regular gas-powered car, not electric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The parking garage filled with smoke, however, there were no evacuation orders in place because the building above is vacant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">However, a nearby office building, the Fresno Council of Governments, had to be evacuated. About two dozen people there had to leave their offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno Fire Department called in their mobile ventilation unit to help clear out the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured but the parking garage is closed for now.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the report by KMJ\u2019s Liz Kern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Crews are working to clear the smoke after a fire started Wednesday morning in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-468329","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\/468329","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=468329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}