A man collapsed while running in the 101st Zazzle Bay to Breakers race Sunday.
About 8 a.m., the man went down at Hayes and Laguna streets, according to racers running beside him. One participant said he did not notice the man before he collapsed and could not say whether the man was struggling during the run.
That same participant stopped racing to help the man, holding up his neck while another runner summoned police. The Fire Department also responded to the scene.
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A new federal report on last year’s hillside house fire in Diamond Heights that killed two firefighters noted the steep landscape, ineffective analysis of the situation and poor communication among responders as contributing factors to the fatalities.
The June 2, 2011, fire at 133 Berkeley Way killed Lt. Vincent Perez, 48, and firefighter-paramedic Anthony Valerio, 53. The Fire Department had determined the cause of the blaze to be accidental.
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Five firefighters and one resident were injured Sunday morning when a four-alarm fire tore through an apartment building in the Mission district.
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The cause of a three-alarm fire that tore through a vacant home in the Bayview district late Saturday remains unknown, authorities said Sunday. The blaze spread to neighboring homes and displaced 30 residents.The fire at 1881 Oakdale Ave. began about 9:30 p.m., spreading to two-story homes on either side before it was extinguished about 90 minutes later, the Fire Department said.
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A man set fire to a stack of pamphlets in San Francisco’s main library branch in the unit block of Grove Street on Sunday, damaging cassette tapes, chairs and computers, police Sgt. Daryl Fong said.The fire alarm was triggered at 3:37 p.m. The fire was set in the Library for the Blind and Print Disabled room on the second floor, library spokeswoman Michelle Jeffers said, which is typically closed on Sundays.
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Firefighters extinguished a small fire in San Francisco’s Mission district this morning.The one-alarm fire was reported at 7:42 a.m. in the 2700 block of Bryant Street, near 26th Street.Crews arrived to find smoke coming from a concrete landing on the second story of an apartment building, fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said.They put out the blaze quickly and no injuries were reported.
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UPDATE - 10:38 a.m. January 4, 2012: A San Francisco fire truck on scene at Telegraph Hill has been sent back to its station. Police remain on scene as the buglary suspect stays stashed in the hillside, refusing to come down.
Scroll down to see video from the scene.
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A San Francisco fire truck was involved in a crash while en route to a non-fire-related call, according to a dispatcher.
About 3:20 p.m. Thursday, the fire truck collided with another vehicle near the intersection of Fourth and Townsend streets. No injuries were reported.
Details regarding the cause of the accident or the type of vehicle were not immediately available.
sgantz@sfexaminer.com
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Firefighters were scrambling Friday to replace toys lost when The City's biggest blaze in more than seven years left as many as 60 people homeless at the height of the holiday season.The effort to help those displaced by the blaze came after firefighters saw ruined gifts strewn in the wreckage near the city's historic Alamo Square, Chief Joanne Hayes-White said.
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At least two families were displaced after a fire broke out in an Inner Sunset building Saturday.San Franciso Fire Department exptinguised the fire at 350 Judah St., near the intersection of 9th Ave., shortly after 2 p.m., according to fire dispatch.
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