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Fresno, CA (April 25, 2025) – Emergency responders were quick to the scene, providing care to the injured victims following a car accident on Tuesday afternoon in Fresno. The crash occurred around 2:40 p.m. at the intersection of Jensen Ave and De Wolf Ave, involving two vehicles. At least one person sustained a variety of injuries and was promptly transported to a local hospital for treatment.

The circumstances leading up to the collision have not yet been fully determined. Investigators from the California Highway Patrol are currently working to uncover the cause of the accident. Both vehicles involved were significantly damaged, leading to temporary disruptions in the area as emergency crews cleared the scene.

Authorities have not released additional details about the identities of those involved. Traffic flow was impacted for some time as responders worked to ensure the safety of the roadway. Our thoughts are with those affected by this accident.

Car Accidents in California

Car accidents remain a frequent occurrence across California, often resulting in serious injuries and significant property damage. In Fresno County alone, thousands of collisions are recorded annually, many of which happen at busy intersections like Jensen Ave and De Wolf Ave. High-traffic areas combined with driver distractions, speeding, and failure to yield are among the leading factors contributing to these crashes.

When accidents occur, immediate medical attention is critical to prevent complications from unseen injuries such as internal bleeding or concussions. Moreover, accident victims often find themselves facing mounting medical bills, vehicle repairs, and emotional trauma. In situations involving unclear fault or multiple vehicles, as seen in this Fresno crash, the aftermath can become even more complicated.

Navigating insurance claims and understanding one’s legal rights after a car accident can be daunting. Victims should prioritize their health first, but it is also wise to consider seeking guidance regarding their options for recovering financial damages. Local incidents like this serve as a reminder of the importance of cautious driving and the value of community resources available to help those impacted.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a crash, Local Accident Reports is here to support you. Contact Local Accident Reports today to learn more about getting the help you need after an accident.

Thunderstorms and cooler temperatures headed to fresno. see the latest forecast

Skies have been recently clear and dry but now it’s time to get out the umbrella.

Rain and thunderstorms were predicted to hit the Fresno area starting Friday night, according to the National Weather Service.

“The potential for thunderstorms is currently elevated this Saturday due to a trough coming through the region this weekend,” the weather service said in an X post. “This map shows the chances for thunderstorms throughout our region Saturday afternoon, with the Sierra Nevada showing the greatest chance at 20-25%.”

Fresno has a 21% chance of thunderstorms on Saturday, the weather service said. The last time Fresno had a thunderstorm and measurable rain was on April 1-2.

Here’s what to expect:

The Fresno area was expected to be cloudy on Friday with a high temperature near 68 degrees and winds around 5 mph, according to the National Weather Service’s latest seven-day forecast.

Temperatures have been in the 80s the past few days, but according to Carlos Molina, a meteorologist with the weather service, Fresno will only get to the 70s this weekend.

The weather service predicted a 50% chance of rain, mainly after 11 p.m. on Friday. The overnight low is expected to be around 49.

Saturday is expected to bring showers before 11 a.m. and possibly a afternoon thunderstorm., the weather service said. It will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 62.

There is a 40% chance of rain by Saturday night with a low of 50 degrees.

“New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms,” Molina said. “By the time we get to Saturday, there will be a 10-degree drop in temperatures.”

The weather service said Sunday’s high will be near 67. Skies will be clear and sunny, and Sunday night will be mostly clear, with a low around 49.

Monday will be sunny, with a high near 75 and a low around 54 by Monday night.

Tuesday will be sunny, with a high near 84. Tuesday night will be partly cloudy, with a low around 59. Wednesday will be sunny, with a high near 87.

Wednesday night will be mostly clear with a low around 61.

Thursday will be sunny with a high near 89.

On a clear December night in 2011, something strange appeared in the sky above Fresno.

“I was driving home when my family and I noticed three bright orange lights shaped in a triangle,” an observer recalled in an anonymous report to the National UFO Reporting Center.

As they got closer, “another bright orange light” showed up ahead of the trio of lights, the observer wrote. “The strange thing about it (was) they were all moving at the same time and pace. ... It was clear it wasn’t a plane.”

Then, they wrote, the lights “just vanished. It was pretty cool.”

As of Thursday, March 27, a total of 16,735 sightings of unidentified flying objects had been reported in California since the 1970s, according to The National UFO Reporting Center.

In January, there were more than 40 UFO sightings reported in California, including one in Fresno, the National UFO Reporting Center said.

More than 20 UFO sightings were reported across the state in February, according to the center, and 18 had been reported so far in March.

Fresno ranked No. 6 in terms of California cities with the most UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, trailing San Jose and San Francisco.

That should come as no surprise, given Fresno-area residents’ fascination with the paranormal, otherworldly and just plain weird.

After all, Fresno County has its own famous cryptid, the Fresno Nightcrawler, and was once home to one of the most haunted places in the nation, Wolfe Manor.

In 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold attracted national attention when he reported seeing nine objects, glowing bright blue-white and flying in a “V” formation over Washington’s Mount Rainier, according to the History Channel.

Arnold compared the objects’ motion to “a saucer if you skip it across water,” the History Channel said.

Contemporary newspaper reports misinterpreted this as meaning that the objects were shaped like saucers, the History Channel explained, “leading to the popularization of the term ‘flying saucer’ as a synonym for UFO.”

Since then, UFO sightings have become an American obsession, with many television shows, movies and music focusing on visitors from beyond the stars. Works inspired by extraterrestrials range from Radiohead’s song “Subterranean Homesick Alien” to “The X Files,” the hit TV series about FBI special agents investigating the unexplained that spawned comics, novels and two films.

“People are obsessed with topics like UFOs (because) they deal with that age-old question: ‘Are we alone in the universe?’ ” Michael Banti, founder of Weird Fresno, told The Fresno Bee. “If UFOs are indeed from outer space, then that question is answered and a new one is brought up. What is our purpose in the universe?”

As of Thursday, March 27, a total of 189 UFO sightings had been reported in Fresno from 1953 to 2024, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.

That’s in addition to 52 UFO sightings in Clovis reported since 1968, National UFO Reporting Center records showed.

In comparison, more than 500 UFO sightings had been reported in Los Angeles since 1942, the center said.

According to the center, the earliest sighting of a UFO in Fresno was in June 1953.

An unidentified person reported hearing an “extremely loud whirring, rotating sound” accompanied by a disc-shaped UFO with “white fluorescent-type light completely around the middle of it.”

Since then, Fresno-area residents have reported at least one UFO sighting per month, according to center data, with the most sightings reported on the month of April.

The discussion about UFOs has spread to social media.

“Is anyone aware of any spots in the Central Valley where UFO sightings have occurred?” a Reddit user asked in 2021.

“I’ve never seen anything but have friends and family who swear they have seen unusual things in the sky here,” Reddit user bravo2505 wrote.

A Selma resident shared a similar experience in a comment.

“I was looking up in the sky and saw a dot of light, like an airplane but a little bigger, as bright as a star, zigzag fast in the sky, then zoom off and disappear,” Reddit user tubesocks111111 wrote in 2021. “It was going faster then any aircraft I’ve ever seen fly.”

Even celebrities have gotten in on the act.

NBA star Shaquille O’Neal recalled spotting something strange in the sky in Madera in 1997.

“Right when we passed the fairground, I could swear I saw a flying saucer come down with all the lights and it was spinning and then it took off,” O’Neal told late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in 2021. “We all looked at each other and it was like, I know it was a UFO. I don’t care what anybody says.”

Fresno television station KMPH-TV, also known as Fox 26 News, said it caught “unusual aerial phenomena” on camera in mid-January, when a tower camera recorded footage of a light appearing to hover over downtown Fresno.

A day later, Fox 26 photojournalist Anthony Guevara said he captured footage of a similar object.

Earl Grey Anderson of the Mutual UFO Network said he could “technically call (the object) a UFO.”

“We’ve seen a few odd things ... strange lights over the horizon at strange times of the day,” said Keith Quattrocchi, founder of Sierra Remote Observatories, a five-acre facility for hobbyist astrophotographers and others near Auberry in eastern Fresno County.

“By definition, some of the things that we’ve seen are unidentified flying objects, because they’re flying, and we don’t know what they are,” Quattrocchi said.

Sam Miller, a technician at Sierra Remote Observatories, said he first got interested in UFOs in 2021, when he saw some odd objects in the sky.

Since then, Miller said, he’s set up extra-sensitive cameras at his Auberry home and worked to compare findings. He also has a YouTube channel where he posts videos of unusual aerial sights.

“These strange lights look like satellites, but the frequency and orientation does not match satellite behavior,” Miller wrote in the caption for one of his videos.

The U.S. Department of Defense releases a yearly report of “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”

“Airborne unidentified anomalous phenomena continue to dominate reporting,” according to the federal agency’s latest report, released in November.

Of the 757 reports the agency logged from May 1, 2023, to June 1, a total of 708 involved objects in the “air domain,” the report said, including balloons, satellites, aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems.

Quattrocchi said he’s received emails from people misidentifying everything from drones to planets as UFOs.

When Venus is visible overhead, he said, “They tell me they’ve seen an orb that’s standing still in the sky. ... It’s a very bright planet that is amazingly bright, and (if) it’s on a really good evening, it really looks strange.”

He said it’s getting harder to discern if UFOs are fact or hoax as technology advances.

“Naval pilots ... have seen things that really we cannot explain in our radar systems,” Quattrochi said. “These things were making very strange maneuvers.”

People can argue, ‘Well, maybe they’re mistaken with what they’re seeing,’ ” he added, but “our radar operators ... (are) saying these things are doing pretty much what the pilots are able to visually see. It’s starting to become a little harder to discern.”

Have you spotted something strange in the sky? You can report a UFO sighting through the National UFO Reporting Center’s website.

You’ll be asked about the date and location of the sighting, as well as how long the phenomenon lasted.

You’ll also be asked:

This story was originally published March 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM.

Choosing a nursing home in the Fresno area can be a difficult — and expensive — decision.

To help guide that search, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services grades skilled nursing facilities using data including state health inspections and complaints.

The federal scorecard looks at factors ranging from residents’ well-being and building safety to staffing levels and COVID-19 vaccination rates.

The Medicare website also notes which nursing homes have been cited for abuse, although it does not give details on what they were cited for or how many citations they received.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid define abuse as “willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish. It includes verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse and mental abuse.”

Nursing homes are rated on a five-star scale, with one star indicating the facility is “much below average” and five stars indicating it’s “much above average.”

There are a total of 47 nursing facilities within a 50-mile radius from downtown Fresno, according to the federal agency.

To help you find the best nursing homes in and around Fresno, The Fresno Bee searched Medicare.gov for the local skilled nursing facilities with the lowest and highest overall ratings.

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, these one-star-rated nursing homes in the Fresno area had citations for abuse as of Thursday, April 3:

These Fresno-area nursing homes also had one-star nursing homes as of Thursday, April 3, according to Medicare.gov:

The Fresno area also has several highly rated nursing homes, according to the federal scorecard.

As of Thursday, April 3, these facilities had five-star ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:

Two of the top-rated skilled nursing facilities previously received accolades for their quality care.

Veterans Home of California Fresno and Pacific Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Center were named the Best Nursing Homes in Fresno by U.S. News & World Report in 2025.

According to the California Department of Social Services, each California county has an adult protective services agency to help adults ages 60 and older, as well as dependent adults with disabilities ages 18 to 59, when “these adults are unable to meet their own needs or are victims of abuse, neglect or exploitation.”

The Fresno County Adult Protective Services Agency investigates “referrals of alleged abuse, neglect, self-neglect, financial abuse, exploitation and other forms of maltreatment,” its website said.

According to the Fresno-Madera Agency on Aging, warning signs that older adults or adults with disabilities might be experiencing abuse include:

To report elder abuse, call Fresno County Adult Protective Services at 559-255-3383 or 800-418-1426 or Madera County Adult Protective Services at 559-675-7839.

Call Tulare County Adult Protective Services at 559-623-0651 or 877-657-3092.

It’s time to get out the umbrellas again.

Rain showers and thunderstorms were set to hit the Fresno area starting Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

The Valley had a 5% to 20% chance of receiving half an inch of rain, the weather service said on an X post, with the Sierra Nevada foothills had a 35% to 90% chance of half an inch of rainfall.

“We’re expecting ... between two tenths of an inch and four tenths of an inch of rain for Fresno,” said David Spector with the National Weather Service in Hanford.

Most of that precipitation could fall between midday Monday and Tuesday evening, he said, adding that “a thunderstorm ... cannot be ruled out.”

The last time Fresno saw measurable rain was on Sunday, March 30, when two tenths of an inch of rain fell in the Central Valley city, the weather service said.

On Monday, the Fresno area was expected to see showers and a possible thunderstorm before 5 p.m., with more rain and thunderstorms likely after that, according to the weather service’s latest seven-day forecast.

The weather service predicated a high temperature near 62 degrees on Monday and an overnight low temperature of 44.

Winds could gust as high as 15 mph.

The Fresno area could receive new rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, the weather service said, with “higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.”

Rain is “likely” on Tuesday, mainly after 11 am., the weather service said. About a tenth of an inch to a quarter-inch of fresh rainfall is possible.

More rain could fall before 11 p.m. Tuesday, when new precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch are possible.

Spector said the weather service is expecting 1 to 3 feet of new snow to fall north of Kings Canyon.

“The higher amounts are going to be in the higher elevations in Yosemite (National) Park,” he said. “That’s where we’re expecting 2 to 3 feet.”

Skies will be clear and blue on Wednesday with a high near 62 and a low around 43, according to the weather service.

Thursday will be sunny, with a high near 66 and an overnight low around 44.

On Friday, the high will reach 70 while the low will be around 47.

Saturday is expected to be sunny with a high near 75 and a low around 49, the weather service said, while Sunday’s high will near 79.

More dry, warm weather is expected in the days ahead, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center.

Fresno will likely experience above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation on April 8 through 14, the Climate Prediction Center forecast said.

This story was originally published March 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM.