An early morning fire at the AL-AZHAR Islamic Academy caused minor damage early Wednesday morning. Investigators are now searching for a man seen on the roof moments before firefighters arrived.<\/p>\n
Crews responded around 3:45 a.m. to reports of a fire at 1284 E. Bullard Ave. When they got there, firefighters found debris burning on the roof of a church building on the property. <\/p>\n
They were able to knock down the flames quickly, preventing the fire from spreading. <\/p>\n
Witnesses told officials they saw a man on the roof before the fire was extinguished. He is described as an adult white male wearing a green puffer jacket, and beanie. According to investigators, he fled the scene and has not been found.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Fresno Fire investigators at 559-621-ARSN (2776).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An early morning fire at the AL-AZHAR Islamic Academy caused minor damage early Wednesday morning. Investigators are now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-90014","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\/90014","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=90014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}