FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – An elderly person was rescued from a burning home in Fresno’s Tower District after a fire erupted Sunday evening, the Fresno Fire Department announced.
According to firefighters, around 5 p.m. they responded to multiple reports of a home on fire with people possibly trapped inside in the 500 block of Fulton Street, near Belmont Avenue.
Responding crews reported heavy fire coming from the residence and immediately went into rescue mode. As firefighters worked to gain access to an elderly person they found upstairs, other crews were outside attacking the fire…