{"id":138189,"date":"2026-05-14T18:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/one-dead-in-montebello-house-fire-police-call-suspicious-circumstances\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:45:55","slug":"one-dead-in-montebello-house-fire-police-call-suspicious-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/one-dead-in-montebello-house-fire-police-call-suspicious-circumstances\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in Montebello house fire, police call &#8216;suspicious circumstances&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>One person died and two others were seriously injured in a house fire in Montebello early Thursday, with police now investigating possible arson. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple detectives and arson investigators with the Montebello Police Department are working on the case, according to a news release from the agency, which cited &#8220;suspicious circumstances&#8221; surrounding the fire. <\/p>\n<p>At approximately 4:30 a.m., Montebello Police received a 911 call reporting a house fire in the 100 block of South 5th Street, Montebello Police Chief Luis Lopez said at a news conference from the scene Thursday morning. Further reports indicated that &#8220;somebody probably started the fire,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said when officers arrived, the house was on fire and a man and woman were outside with burns. After this the officials requested the fire department for help. <\/p>\n<p>The man, who parked two blocks away from the home, tried to leave the scene despite his injuries, but officers stopped him, Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p>He and the woman were taken to the hospital and were listed in critical condition, Lopez said. Detectives are now investigating whether the fire was the result of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>None of the fire victims could be identified. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person died and two others were seriously injured in a house fire in Montebello early Thursday, with police now investigating possible arson. Multiple detectives and arson investigators with the Montebello Police Department are working on the case, according to a news release from the agency, which cited &#8220;suspicious circumstances&#8221; surrounding the fire. At approximately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1962,22830,435,231,496,30977,157,11868],"class_list":{"0":"post-138189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-call","9":"tag-circumstances","10":"tag-dead","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-house","13":"tag-montebello","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-suspicious"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138193,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138189\/revisions\/138193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}