SFist: What's Going On Here, Lower Haight?

July 23, 2008

What's Going On Here, Lower Haight?

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Photo by Brian_Brooks

Wow! While the Lower Haight is accustomed to hourly police cruiser convergences, SFFD trucks aren't nearly as common as fuzz mobiles. Looks like whatever happened happened this morning, we're guessing.

So. Anyone know what went down? Please advise.

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[1] | 07/23/08 12:24PM

a. Kitten stuck in tree
b. Hysterical queen locked out of Audi
c. Sale on leather jock gear at Worn Out West
d. *Insert your own fire hose joke here*
e. All of the above

[2] | 07/23/08 12:38PM

some hipster got too took off heroin, blacked out with candles burning, and the whole squat went up in flames.

all of this to the soundtrack of elliot smith, of course.

[3] | 07/23/08 12:57PM

^dork

[4] | 07/23/08 01:05PM

i do not think that word (hipster) means what you think it means.

/vizzini

[5] | 07/23/08 01:27PM

Isn't this just how firetrucks in San Francisco get dispatched? I haven't really seen any since I moved, but when I lived in Nob Hill, they pretty much always showed up in packs of four. I think the assumption was that if there actually is a fire, they better make sure we get it out before it spreads to other buildings.

Of the five or six times they showed up, there was never once a fire, leading to a lot of disappointed firefighters having to recoil all their hose. I almost felt bad for them and wished that maybe once it would actually be a huge blaze.

[6] | 07/23/08 01:43PM

@plumpy from my understanding, and this comes from info having survived a four alarm fire on nob hill, in that area any credible fire threat is routinely called as 2 alarms, meaning 2 ladder trucks, 1 smaller truck and often the chief's car and an ambulance.

[7] | 07/23/08 01:51PM

Hi RobinSF! Do you actually live in San Francisco? If you did, then I am sure you would know that Worn Out West is actually in Eureka Valley / The Castro and not in the Lower Haight.

Now, on the the topic at hand. Those fire trucks are usually parked out front of Bean There, so this is quite curious. Is the Vapor Room on fire?!?!?

[8] | 07/23/08 01:57PM

@travin: Yeah, that makes sense. It's a dense area full of old buildings just ready to go up in flames. But I'm just wondering if lower Haight (and any other dense area, i.e. most of northern SF) might not warrant the same response? All I'm saying is that a few fire trucks doesn't necessarily mean there's actually a fire. This used to be a monthly sight outside my apartment and it was never anything worth discussing.

[9] | 07/23/08 02:29PM

Actually plumpy, all first responders respond to 911 calls - even if there is no fire, firemen respond to calls as well as police (for example) because it just makes sense. Who knows what they're going to find when they get there?

[10] | 07/23/08 02:34PM

have any of you been by the Post/Polk fire station - the one near Divas? between alarms those boys just love to show off.

[11] | 07/23/08 02:56PM

All those firefighters came over to my house to make chili! Ok, they didn't but they should have.

[12] | 07/23/08 03:31PM

A couple of years ago, Trax on Haight Street caught fire. Two or three trucks showed up about two minutes after we all called 911 and they had the fire out before too much damage was done to it or the surrounding buildings, so I'm all for firetrucks traveling like MUNI: in packs.

[13] | 07/23/08 11:15PM

Oh Tweety, ya got me. Truth be told, I have been wanting to use my "Hysterical queen locked out of Audi" joke for a few weeks now, saw an Audi and ran with it.

I meant to say the Aardvark or the nice bathroom at Hobson's. Or the open grave pit and Santeria temple underneath the bar at Cha-Cha-Cha.

Man, has this place become ultra-anal lately or what! Too many out of work, new age massage therapists in too small an area all losing their "center" at the same time.

[14] | 07/24/08 08:17AM

Being a "queen with an Audi" in the Lower Haight, I can assure you that not all of us are "hysterical," but gay-bashing is always fun, isn't it?

This photograph was taken on Haight, between Steiner and Fillmore, so no where near Cha-Cha-Cha, Hobson's etc. (Upper Haight / Haight Ashbury / Ashbury Heights). Perhaps it was the Peacock Lounge or the hair burner on the corner or the Real Estate office or RNM.

[15] | 07/24/08 08:47AM

Get over it already or I'll break out my full complement of cancer stricken, blind, homeless, elderly paraplegic jokes.