One person was taken to the hospital after a one-alarm fire in San Francisco’s Castro District this morning, fire officials said.Fire crews were dispatched at 3:03 a.m. to 4343 19th St. after reports of a fire.The fire was contained by 3:15 a.m. and all crews left the scene by 4:50 a.m.One person was hospitalized with what appeared to be injuries not considered life-threatening, a fire official said.
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IMAGE OF THE WEEKOn the edge: A firefighter balances himself on the emergency stairway railing outside a window at a blaze in the Haight on Tuesday. No injuries were reported in the four-alarm fire at the 41-unit apartment building on the corner of Haight and Fillmore streets. (Mike Koozmin/The Examiner)WHAT TO READDreams of the DeadBy Perri O’Shaughnessy ($25)
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An underground fire sent smoke billowing up through manholes at a SoMa District intersection and knocked out power for about 1,100 people Thursday afternoon.The fire, which was first reported at 1:48 p.m., occurred at the intersection of Folsom and Harriet streets, according to fire department spokeswoman Lt. Mindy Talmadge. Firefighters doused the blaze with CO2, and by 3 p.m. it had been contained.
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A four-alarm fire in San Francisco’s Lower Haight neighborhood Tuesday displaced more than a dozen residents.The blaze was reported at 4:08 p.m. at a three-story building on the corner of Haight and Fillmore streets and was under control by 5:15 p.m.No injuries were reported, a fire dispatcher said.
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Firefighters continue to battle a fire that has grown to four alarms in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood.The blaze was reported at 4:08 p.m. at a three-story building on the corner of Haight and Fillmore streets.No injuries have been reported, a fire dispatcher said. Flames and smoke were no longer visible as of 5:45 p.m., but firefighters are still on the scene putting out hot spots, according to fire spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge.
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A structure fire at an abandoned factory was quickly doused by San Francisco firefighters Saturday, a fire dispatcher said.The 1-alarm fire was reported at 11:25 p.m. near the corner of Third Street and Mariposa Street. Firefighters had the fire under control by 11:36 p.m.Firefighters do not yet know how the fire in the concrete factory was started.
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There have been good days and bad days the past three months at the San Francisco Fire Department’s Station 26 — the peaceful former hilltop post of firefighters Vincent Perez and Anthony Valerio.
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The Fire Department Thursday plans to hold a Line of Duty Death Memorial Wall dedication ceremony unveiling the names of two firefighters who died in the line of duty earlier this year. Lt. Vincent A. Perez and firefighter-paramedic Anthony M. Valerio died from injuries sustained while fighting a house fire at 133 Berkeley Way in the Diamond Heights neighborhood.The ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Fire Department headquarters, 698 Second St.
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A two-block radius near a busy Union Square intersection was closed most of Wednesday afternoon after a 10-inch gas main broke in the middle of the street in San Francisco.
Click to see photos from the scene of the downtown pipeline rupture.
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A construction crew struck a 10-inch gas line Wednesday afternoon, causing several blocks in downtown San Francisco to be closed.
The crew was working at Mason and Post streets at about 2 p.m. when it struck the line. PG&E was on the scene within minutes of the rupture in order to start making repairs, according to San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge.
As of just after 3 p.m., gas was still leaking from the pipeline.
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