Firefighters contain one-alarm blaze in Haight-Ashbury

UPDATE 10 A.M.:

Five residents were displaced by a one-alarm fire in a four-story Victorian home in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood Thursday morning.

The fire was reported at 8:23 a.m. in the 100 block of Central Avenue.

The fire was contained by 8:40 a.m.

No injuries were reported by fire officials, but the American Red Cross was called in to help the displaced residents.

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