SF News Arsonist Strikes Four More Times In SoMa And Mission That series of suspicious fires, likely all started by the same individual and typically centering around construction sites in SoMa, continued over the weekend with four fires on Sunday including three in SoMa
SF News 9 Suspicious Fires Strike SoMa and Mission In Past 3 Weeks A series of nine, likely related acts of arson have occurred in less than three weeks, most in SoMa around several highrise construction projects, seemingly the work of a firebug who has not
SF News Man Allegedly Burns Through Morning Commute, Sets Fire To Truck At Bay Bridge Toll Plaza [Updated] There's a truck on fire just past the toll plaza and a crazy guy is dancing all around it as they spray him. pic.twitter.com/rJ0MnvQF8j— Kevin Wilson (@silverem2) June 19, 2014
SF News Mountain View Teens Partied In Empty Home Before Burning It Down A group of 14 teenagers were arrested in Mountain View this week after throwing a series of drug- and alcohol-fueled parties at an unoccupied home in an upscale neighborhood. After two consecutive weekends
SF News Dolores: Two Zipcars Set On Fire Last Night [Update] Over on Dolores on Monday night, two Zipcars were set ablaze in a residential parking lot at Dolores and 15th Street. A reader sent us the details: I live at 240 Dolores Street
SF News A Serial Arsonist Is Trying To Burn Down Suburban San Jose In San Jose, the local fire department is on the hunt for a firebug who may be responsible for intentionally setting 12 homes and businesses on fire since last Wednesday. The man has
SF News Daly City Man Arrested For Torching Chinese Consulate Yan Feng*, a Chinese national living in Daly City, was arrested in connection with last week's Chinese Consulate fire. He apparently turned himself in to the authorities on Friday. The Chronicle reports: "Agency
SF News Arsonist Attacks Chinese Consulate In SF; FBI To Investigate An arsonist hit the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco (1450 Laguna) Wednesday night. At around 9:30 pm, "a person got out of a minivan parked in front of the consulate’s front
SF News Marina Boat-Fuel Station Almost Burned Down On Sept. 11 The owner of a boat-fuel dock in the Marina says that an attempted arson at her business could have been tied to September 11. But it also might have been coincidental and just
SF News Girlfriend-Torching Laundromat Goon Busted In Oakland 22-Year-Old Dexter Oliver, the man accused of setting his girlfriend on fire because she wanted to leave her clothes unattended at a Bayview laundromat, was arrested at a hotel in Oakland yesterday. With
SF News Man Sets Girlfriend On Fire After Laundromat Spat San Francisco Police are on the lookout for 22-year-old Dexter Oliver after the fiery fiend allegedly set his girlfriend aflame outside of a Bayview laundromat Sunday. According to the victim's sister, Precious Craig,
SF News Reminder: Don't Take A Road Flare To Your Christmas Tree Because That Would Be Stupid In front of St. Francis Memorial Hospital today, members of the S.F. Fire Department set up a safety demonstration to show local holiday decorators just how fast a well-watered pine can go
SF News Muni Bus Window Smasher 'Very Ashamed,' Pleads Not Guilty The man accused of smashing an 8X-Bayshore bus window just after the World Series says he's "very ashamed" of his actions. He also says he's not guilty. Gregory Tyler Graniss, 22, pleaded not
SF News Have You Seen These Muni Bus Arsonists? SFPD posted footage of these dimwitted fellas who lit a Muni bus ablaze on Monday shortly after the Giants won the World Series. Police are now asking for you help in identifying them.
SF News Man Who Once Torched Burning Man Takes Own Life at Embarcadero BART Paul Addis, a playwright and performer best known for prematurely setting fire to the man at Burning Man in 2007 (and also did two years jail time for the incident), died Saturday night
SF News Hayward Teens Arrested For Brutal Castro Valley Murder Two teenagers, Christian Birdsall, 16 and Cody Nicosia, 18, stand accused of beating to death Barbara Latiolais whose body was found inside her burning Castro Valley house on October 18, which authorities believe
SF News Office of Vallejo Mayor Torched Stuff is crazy up in Vallejo. The somewhat troubled town, known for having quite a lot of prostitutes as well as being one of the first cities in the nation to file for
SF News Two Richmond District Porta-Potties Went Up In Flames Last Night In what could be the return of the infamous toilet torcher, or just the work of some mischievous neighborhood punks, Bay City News reports two portable toilets were "engulfed in flames" in the
SF News Arson Suspect Arrested After Bayview Flophouse Erupts In Early Morning Blaze At least one home is destroyed and several others were damaged when a suspicious four-alarm fire broke out around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning in the Bayview. According to police, two women in
SF News This Guy May Or May Not Be Trying To Burn Down The Castro A suspect arrested last week for sparking a fire that threatened to burn down a home near Market and 17th Streets may be the very same Castro arsonist who started a string of
SF News 3 People, Possibly Terrible Teenagers, Sought In BART Fire Thursday morning's inferno that crippled BART service between Oakland and San Francisco might have been intentionally set, according to investigators. Police are now asking the public for help in finding three suspicious people
SF News Two Arrested For Setting Castro Muni Station Fires Oh, that's not nice. Two people were pinched last night after setting two presumably small fires in the Castro Muni station. "Police were called to the station at around 4 a.m. today,
SF News Has The Toilet Torcher Returned To Terrorize Noe Valley? Although when San Francisco's infamous Toilet Torcher made headlines by lighting up over 20 porta-potties in 2009, we haven't (ahem) caught wind of any cases of portable toilet arsons for a while. When
SF News Police Search For Arsonist Who Torched Main Branch Library An arsonist caused over $5,000 in damage to the Main Branch Library yesterday afternoon after setting fire to some informative pamphlets he found behind the reference desk in the Library for the
SF News Molotov Cocktail Mixologist Loose In San Francisco A car in Merced Heights was set aflame by a well-tossed molotov cocktail last night. The flaming bottle was not, as one might expect, part of any sort of political protest. Instead, the
