SF News One Confirmed Dead, Three of Seven Missing People Identified in Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Explosion One person has been confirmed dead after Tuesday’s NorCal fireworks warehouse disaster, and now we have the identities of a few of those still missing, and it turns out the name of the fireworks company was Devastating Pyrotechnics.
SF News Underground Vault Explosion Causes Property Damage In Pacific Heights Around 8 p.m. Saturday night, an underground PG&E vault in Pacific Heights spontaneously caught on fire, causing an explosion through a manhole that damaged a vehicle and nearby windows, but caused no injuries.
SF News Sunset Home Explosion Suspect Granted Bail, Ordered Released, Neighboring Family Remains Homeless Darron Price, the man whose alleged hash oil operation is suspected of blowing up his home and killing his wife, has been ordered released to home detention. It’s unclear what home he has to go to, but a neighboring family is also very much without a home.
SF News Significant Explosion Turns Stinson Beach Into 'Warzone,' Temporarily Closes Highway 1 An unexplained explosion Tuesday morning blew the front off of a building on the main drag in Stinson Beach, shook the town like an earthquake, and caused a fire that spread to neighboring businesses.
SF News They're Going To Blow Up Another Part Of The Bay Bridge Today Traffic will suck and bikes won't be allowed on the Bay Bridge today. Why? Because Caltrans is going to blow some shit up! Caltrans likes using "highly controlled sequential charges" to destroy the
SF News Novato Man Blows Up Two Muscle Cars In Fiery Accident In an incident straight out of some suburban-fanfic version of The Fast and the Furious, two muscle cars exploded in a fiery blaze this past Saturday, resulting in a two-alarm fire that required
SF News UC Berkeley Campus Evacuated After Explosion [Updated] UC Berkeley is being evacuated after an underground fire. pic.twitter.com/XDeuSiI52K— Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 1, 2013 A power outage at UC Berkeley prefaced a major explosion on Monday night, resulting
SF News Firecracker Attack Freaks Out Union Square Saturday Late Saturday afternoon what appeared to be a stick of dynamite (or a firecracker) was thrown at the window of a business on the 300 block of Grant Street near Union Square, causing
SF News 7 Marines Killed In Training Exercise At Nevada Army Facility Military officials have confirmed that seven U.S. Marines were killed and many others were injured last night during a training exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada. NBC News reports, "a mortar
SF News Christmas Night Brings Another Manhole Cover Blast Like a little Christmas gift from PG&E, a manhole cover blew off at 3rd and Mission Streets last evening in a festive display caused by an underground vault fire. The incident
SF News Ingleside Heights Bathroom Drug Cook Busted, Maybe More Boring Than Expected [Updated] 33-year-old Angelic Cisneros, the woman who blew out the windows of her fiancé's Ingleside apartment while cooking up drugs in the bathroom, has been arrested for five felonies, including one count of possession
SF News Ingleside Home Explodes, Two People Burned, Drugs Are Blamed [Updated] A home near the intersection of Capitol and Ocean Avenues in the Ingleside neighborhood sort of blew up last night around 9 p.m. sending a woman and a 12-year-old to the hospital
SF News Manhole Cover Explosion at Folsom at Harriet Today at around 1:50 pm, there was a manhole cover explosion on Folsom Street at Harriet Street. Alert SF notes: "Folsom Street is closed between 6th and 7th Streets. Harriet Street is
SF News PG&E Gets Slapped Up the Side of the Head By Feds for San Bruno Blast The results of the federal probe into the San Bruno gas line explosion of last September were finally presented yesterday, and the NTSB has placed all the blame for the tragedy on PG&
SF News Manhole Cover Explosion at Grant and Post We're hearing reports of a manhole cover explosion happening in the city's Union Square area. KCBS tweets: "Black smoke reported at Post & Grant in SF, reports of a manhole cover explosion." Joanna
SF News Car Explodes Near Montgomery BART Station SFist received news that a car exploded on Montgomery Street near the BART Station around Noon today. Check out some video of the billowing black smoke from the scene. At least two very
SF News Surveillance Video Captures 'Moment of Impact' Explosion, Fireball At a gas station in San Bruno, a surveillance video caught Thursday's natural gas explosion and fire on film. "You can see one man getting ready to fill up his car when something
SF News Some San Bruno Residents Return Home at Noon After Thursday's natural gas pipeline explosion, which displaced many San Bruno citizens, several residents will be allowed to return home at noon today. "At a news briefing this morning, San Bruno City Manager
SF News San Bruno Fire Aftermath in Photos A natural gas line explosion erupted in San Bruno on Thursday at Skyline Boulevard and Sneath Lane, sending a continuous fireball into the sky that destroyed 37 homes and killed four six residents.
SF News Death Toll in San Bruno Expected to Rise As most news orgs are reporting this morning, the official fatality count from last night's gas main explosion and ongoing fire in San Bruno is 4 people, with 52 suffering injuries that required
SF News Manhole Covers Explode in Financial District Speaking of explosions, two manhole covers exploded Friday morning in San Francisco's Financial District. CBS 5 notes: "Reports indicated two manholes exploded near the area of Sutter and Montgomery Streets around 7:30
SF News (UPDATED) Huge Explosion Sparks Massive San Bruno Fire According to CBS 5, "a huge explosion happened in the San Bruno area and huge flames can be seen...the flames are near Crestmore and San Ramon Avenues." The fire has torched multiple
SF News UPDATED: Another Oil Rig Just Exploded in the Gulf of Mexico There was an explosion this morning on the Vermilion Oil Rig 380, 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast, west of the site of the Deep Water Horizon blast.
SF News Updated: Explosion at Le Meridien Hotel We're getting reports of a loud explosion and major siren action in the Financial District. SF Appeal is saying the location is the Le Meridien Hotel at Battery and Sansome. UPDATE: ABC 7
misc Happy Anniversary, Great Nitroglycerin Explosion of 1866! "Terrible Explosion and Loss of Life in San Francisco" roared the headline in the Placer Herald describing what happened 144 years ago today after stored nitroglycerin boxes at the Wells Fargo and Co.
