A massive wind-fueled fire tore apart three buildings in the Western Addition near Alamo Square on Thursday, leaving some 60 people without homes just days before Christmas.
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The police captain of San Francisco’s Northern Station has a message for nutty drivers.“I have been getting lots of complaints of people driving like jerks,” Capt. Ann Mannix Tweeted on Friday. “Please be more courteous out there.”Northern Station cops monitor areas including Western Addition, Pacific Heights, Japantown, Polk Gulch, Russian Hill and the Marina.
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Holy crap! Gunfire erupted in a park bathroom during a vicious robbery in San Francisco’s Western Addition on Monday afternoon, police said.An 18-year-old Potrero Hill man was attacked by three goons in the bathroom at Raymond Kimbell Playground, at Ellis and Pierce streets, just after 2 p.m.
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Nearly 7,000 customers in San Francisco’s Western Addition and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods were briefly without power this morning and almost 300 customers are still in the dark, a PG&E spokesman said.A power outage started at 5:24 a.m. after an underground equipment failure at Golden Gate Avenue and Fillmore Street. The outage knocked out power to 6,910 customers, spokesman JD Guidi said.
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The man accused of robbing cabbies at knifepoint after they dropped him off near his Western Addition home has been slapped with three more counts related to the series.Woodrow Blake, 48, of San Francisco pleaded not guilty to the additional allegations Wednesday. He was arrested last month after police warned cabbies about a hooded man wanted in connection with more than a half-dozen knifepoint robberies since July 14.
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Gunfire injured three people in two separate San Francisco shootings on Thursday night.None of the injuries was life threatening, police said.
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A man was struck by a car in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood this morning, a fire dispatcher said.The accident was reported at 7:52 a.m. at the intersection of Webster and O’Farrell streets.The man was taken to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center to be treated for his injuries, according to the dispatcher, who did not know the man’s condition.The driver of the car that struck the man stopped at the scene.
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Thousands of PG&E customers have had their power restored after an outage left nearly 7,000 in the dark in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, Western Addition, and Laurel Heights neighborhoods this afternoon, according to the utility.The outage impacted about 6,900 customers earlier this afternoon. Power was restored to about 5,400 customers as of 4 p.m, according to PG&E’s twitter account.
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Thousands of PG&E customers in San Francisco lost power Friday afternoon, according to the utility company.Nearly 7,000 customers in the Haight Ashbury, Western Addition and Laurel Heights neighborhoods were affected by the outage, according to a message posted on the utility’s Twitter account.
The utility said that several crews were on scene to restore power.
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The suspect in a series of robberies on taxi drivers in San Francisco – including several at the same Western Addition intersection – pleaded not guilty to two counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery on Thursday.
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