{"id":503547,"date":"2026-10-22T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503547\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T00:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:44:18","slug":"bystander-rescues-woman-from-burning-modesto-home-before-firefighters-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503547\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystander rescues woman from burning Modesto home before firefighters arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bystander pulled a woman from a burning home in Modesto after finding her in a wheelchair inside the residence, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Modesto Fire Department said the fire happened at a residence in the area of East Roseburg Avenue and Sunrise Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Before crews arrived, officials said a passerby stopped his vehicle and attempted to reach the woman inside but was initially unable to enter because of the intense heat.<\/p>\n<p>The bystander told the woman to get down on the floor before crawling into the home beneath the heaviest heat and dragging her to safety, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/modesto-house-fire-1.png#.png\" alt=\"modesto-house-fire-1.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Modesto Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, but the nature of her injuries and her condition were not known.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials also reported downed live power lines in the area while the fire was active.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bystander pulled a woman from a burning home in Modesto after finding her in a wheelchair inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6978,15563,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-503547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-house-fire","tag-modesto-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503547","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=503547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}