Two homes catch on fire near downtown Fresno

Two homes caught on fire late near downtown Fresno, requiring 35 firefighters and 10 engines to help battle the blaze late Wednesday night.

It happened around 10:30 p.m. at Mono Avenue and 6th Street.

When the Fresno firefighters arrived, one house was fully engulfed in flames after a fire ball erupted.

And a neighboring home was burning toward the back of a duplex, which housed two families (a total of three adults and three children), Battalion Chief Randy Reitz said.

The fire caused heavy damage to back end of the duplex, and small damage to another structure and power lines.

Cause of the fire is still under investigation, but Reitz said the initial structure that caught on fire was under construction and homeless people had been known to visit the site.

This story was originally published July 31, 2019 at 11:17 PM.