There was a fair bit of chaos at a residential building at the edge of the Tenderloin Monday morning, near Civic Center, prompting a citywide alert to avoid the area.

An alert that went out Monday at 9:30 am from the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management mentioned "fire activity" and urged city residents to avoid the area of 44 McAllister Street, near Jones Street. But that fire situation actually occurred hours earlier, around 3 am, on the building's fourth floor, as KRON4 reports.

San Francisco police responded to the building at 6:43 am on a report of a person threatening others and "waving" a machete.

That person was later identified as 47-year-old Jared Spegal, and police say that Spegal then "refused to comply" with officers who came knocking on his door, instead deciding to barricade himself inside his third-floor unit for several hours.

Per KRON4, a hostage negotiation team was called in, and the San Francisco Fire Department also provided assistance in getting Spegal to come out. He was ultimately taken into custody without incident, and transported to a local hospital for evaluation.

No one was reportedly injured in the machete incident, however two residents of 44 McAllister reportedly suffered minor injuries in the early morning fire.

44 McAllister is a residential hotel called the Civic Center Residences, which is operated by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation. The building is home to 212 residents, some of whom were formerly homeless.