Central Fresno fire sends officer, 89-year-old woman to hospital

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A occurrence successful Central Fresno sent an serviceman and an aged pistillate to the hospital.

The flames erupted aft 5 p.m. Sunday evening connected Fulton and Belmont.

Fresno Police were the archetypal to get astatine the scene.

One serviceman helped idiosyncratic get retired of the building, but did not spell inside.

The serviceman suffered fume inhalation and was taken to the infirmary arsenic a precaution, and was released.

When firefighters arrived, they went into rescue mode, searching for anyone other inside.

''The reports were that determination was of an aged idiosyncratic that lived upstairs; they had a radical of firefighters effort to summation entree simultaneously were attacking the fire, trying to extinguish it,'' says Josh Sellers with Fresno Fire.

Firefighters pulled the 89-year-old pistillate retired of the location and rushed her to a hospital, wherever her existent information has not been released.

Fresno Police accidental this whitethorn beryllium an arson investigation.