SF News [Update] Man Killed In Mission Fire Identified Though there's been no official word on the identity of the one fatality in Wednesday night's fire at 22nd and Mission, reporters have honed in on a couple who is already mourning their
SF News More Details, Photos Emerge From Deadly Mission Fire At least 40 people were displaced in Wednesday night's big fire at 22nd and Mission, including several Latino families, and reports are emerging that no fire alarms sounded and fire escapes were either
SF News [Updated] One Killed, Six Injured In Mission Fire A fire in a large building at 22nd and Mission streets has killed one, an adult man, and injured six including a firefighter. According to Mission Local, whose offices are in the second
SF News Hot Cop Of The Bay Bridge: CHP Cruiser Explodes Near Treasure Island San Francisco Police Officer Chris Kohrs might have been dubbed the Hot Cop of the Castro last year, but now it's 2015 and we have a new hot cop — and this time, it's
SF News Holiday Weekend Fires: Bike Shop Burns, Dog Rescued, Another String Of Castro Arsons It's been a busy long holiday weekend for the San Francisco Fire Department, with multiple fires popping up Saturday, Sunday, and this morning. During the conflagrations, a bike shop was destroyed, a firefighter
SF News Two Potrero Hill Homes Destroyed In Christmas Morning Fire I don't know what it is with Christmas and fires, but for the second year in a row there was a major house fire on Christmas Day. Thursday morning a fire broke out
SF News Carsonist Strikes Again In The Castro Sunday Morning A fifth car fire in less than a week has struck the Castro/Dolores Heights neighborhood, this time at Hartford and 18th Streets. The first report of the fire came at 3 a.
SF News Huge Flames Over Chevron Refinery Last Night That Freaked Everyone Out Were On Purpose A problem in the de-asphalting unit at the Chevron refinery in Richmond last night led to some dramatic "flaring" in the skies over the East Bay, as KRON4 and others have reported. In
SF News Happy Holidays From The SFFD: Terrifying Burning Xmas Tree Demo To celebrate the holiday and give you warm fuzzies, the San Francisco Fire Department lit a christmas tree on fire in the middle of the sidewalk, incinerating it in under 30 seconds. We're
SF News SFFD, SFPD Stumped By Second Outbreak Of Torched Cars In Past Month Less than a month after three vehicles were damaged in an as-yet-unsolved carson in the Castro, four more cars were torched early Wednesday morning in what one San Francisco official is speculating might
SF News SoMa Firebug Accused Of Torching Mercedes Acquitted Remember Anthony Bejerano, the man the SFPD nabbed back in June for allegedly setting more than a dozen small fires around SoMa and the Mission, including one in the parking garage at One
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink TBD Restaurant Closed For At Least A Week After Mysterious Fire The next-door sister restaurant to AQ, TBD suffered a weird, between-the-walls fire last night around 1 a.m. that led to the fire department punching holes in the ceiling and letting in a
Arts & Entertainment IT'S DONE: San Francisco Giants Take The World Series For Third Time In Five Years A lot of people said this would go to seven games. And a lot of people thought the Giants would win. A lot of other people thought the Royals would pull it out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cue the Toast Jokes: The Mill Had A Small Fire On Friday Twitterers and blogs like Uptown Almanac took approximately five seconds to roll out some toast jokes after Divisadero coffeeshop/pricey toast purveyor The Mill experienced a small fire Friday evening. They were in
SF News Cal Fire Airtanker Crashes While Fighting Wildfire In Yosemite The pilot of a Cal Fire airtanker was killed Tuesday when his plane crashed near Arch Rock while battling the fast-moving Dog Rock Fire, which broke out Tuesday afternoon near one of the
SF News King Fire Grows To 95,000 Acres The King Fire has continued to grow in El Dorado County, and has now consumed over 95,000 acres or 150 square miles of forest, due east of Sacramento in the Sierra Foothills.
SF News King Fire Rages On In El Dorado County, Only 18 Percent Contained The largest California wildfire so far this season, the King Fire, is burning on a week after it began in El Dorado County, 60 miles east of Sacramento. The fire began on September
SF News Two New Wildfires Sparked Near Yosemite And Oregon Border Among the 12 major wildfires currently burning across the state, two fresh ones were sparked in the last two days: the Courtney Fire, burning not far from the recent Junction Fire near Oakhurst
SF News Seven Families Displaced Following 3-Alarm Gas Station Fire In Balboa Park A fire that started this morning at a gas station body shop in Balboa Park and spread to nearby apartments has been contained, but left 23 people and two dogs without a place
SF News Another Yosemite Wildfire, The Junction Fire, Grows To 1,200 Acres This fire season is proving, predictably, to be a doozy. Yet another wildfire has grown out of control in Madera County near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park and the town of
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Burns Church On 20th Street In The Mission [Updated] There's a fire currently burning in a church on 20th Street in the Mission, near San Carlos. NBC Bay Area reports that the church is located at 3541 20th Street, and that the
SF News Fire Watch: Lightning Possible In East Bay Tonight A low-pressure system off the Northern California coast is creating a strong possibility of lightning strikes Monday night, exacerbating wildfire fears particularly in the East Bay. Late Monday and early Tuesday morning lightning
SF News Renoir Hotel Ablaze, Explosions Reported Mid-Market's Renoir Hotel caught fire today at 12:03 p.m., in a blaze that the Fire Department says is "the width and height of the building,” the Chronicle reports. No injuries have
SF News Update On The El Portal Fire, Now 96 Percent Contained Thankfully, the El Portal Fire, which has been burning over a week at the western edge of Yosemite National Park and in Stanislaus National Forest, is now 96 percent contained after burning 4,
SF News Update: Do Not Try To Find Emergency Drinking Water From Hydrants After An Earthquake Update: SFist has received official word from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission that the whole emergency-drinking-water-from-hydrants program was discontinued in recent years due to fears about backflow of unsafe water into the
