SF News Firefighters Talk About Battling Tuesday's Mission Bay Blaze "We don't get this type of fire every day," said fire chief Joanne Hayes-White in a news conference on Wednesday. "But we train for this type of conflagration, and we were up to
SF News Mission Bay Fire: The Morning After View from 4th and Long Bridge, SF of apartment building under construction where hot spots are still flaring up. pic.twitter.com/M7oIfdpQg2— Jenna Lane (@jennalane) March 12, 2014 The morning after a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Vess Cola Sign Revealed On Side Of Fire Damaged Building Richmond Blog and David Gallagher bring your attention to an old Vess Cola sign revealed on the side of a building damaged in a fire at Clement and 12th Avenue. Richmond Blog reports:
SF News BREAKING: Three-Alarm Fire In Bayview [Updated] Update 1:30: It turns out that building was not a auto shop, but a maintenance shop. ABC 7's Wayne Freedman reports, "Garage was a maintenance shop, not a body shop, says Operations
SF News Residents Escape Two-Alarm Blaze In The Mission On Stevenson Street A firefighter was injured in the Mission District last night after battling a two-alarm blaze. The fire occurred a little before 6 a.m. on the 1400 block of Stevenson. "The firefighter was
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 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 That Christmas Fire Was At Former Supervisor Christina Olague's Home, And One Of Her Housemates Has Died The story of the Christmas night fire that tore through a Victorian at 618 Baker Street has taken a darker turn as we learn that one of the residents injured in the blaze
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 Pfeiffer Fire Burned 34 Homes Total In Big Sur The wildfire, known as the Pfeiffer Fire, that ignited down in Big Sur on December 15 reached full containment before the Christmas holiday weekend, but not before destroying a total of 38 building,
SF News Christmas Night Fire At Baker And Fulton Injures Two A three-alarm fire that broke out last night in a four-story Victorian in NoPa sent two residents to the hospital with severe burns, and displaced two others. The fire broke out shortly after
SF News Big Sur Wildfire Update: 20% Contained, Fire Moving Slowly The late season wildfire burning in the Los Padres National Forest in Big Sur is still moving slowly, and as of Tuesday night it had burned 769 acres and was 20 percent contained.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchen Fire Threatens Annual Thanksgiving Dinner At The Tenderloin's Little Henry's One of the remaining un-gentrified businesses of the deep Tenderloin, Little Henry's restaurant at Larkin and Post, suffered a one-alarm kitchen fire on Saturday morning. The restaurant is known, among other things, for
SF News Teen Arrested For Setting AC Transit Passenger On Fire We get our fair share of nightmarish public transportation-related crimes around here, but this one may take the cake. Yesterday evening, a sleeping passenger was actually set on fire aboard an AC Transit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maverick Fire Displaces 8 Residents The fire that started at Maverick last week ended up displacing eight adult residents from the above units. It also caused heaps of damage to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
SF News Morning Fire Damages Maverick In The Mission Friday morning in the Mission, a fire ignited at Maverick located at 3316 17th Street. The blaze, which caused severe damage, sparked in an oven inside the restaurant, according to reports. "It started
SF News Fire Beneath Train Causes Big BART Headaches In Orinda A fire that appeared to have started on the tracks underneath a Pittsburg-bound BART train at Orinda station Wednesday evening caused some delays into the morning commute this a.m. because of a
SF News Grass Fire Along 101 Near Candlestick Destroys Many Drivers' Afternoons You may want to avoid 101 if at all possible, because a grass fire this afternoon made the southbound side of the freeway kind of impossible. The fire was near the Alana Way
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 Father, Daughter Die In S.F. House Fire Early Friday morning in the Sunset District neighborhood, a father and his 2-year-old daughter died during a two-alarm fire. The fire started in the garage of the house, located in the 1900 block
SF News 97-Year-Old West Oakland Church Goes Up In Flames Zion's First Church of God in Christ, which has stood on the same West Oakland corner in different forms for almost 100 years, was largely destroyed in a three-alarm fire Monday afternoon. The
SF News Another Fire Burned Up 68 Homes In Shasta This Week You knew it was going to be a bad fire season after that gloriously dry winter. And, it is. There was another wildfire this week up in Shasta County that is currently at
SF News Mount Diablo Fire Now 90 Percent Contained; Obviously Caused By A Human [Updated] The good news is that the Morgan Fire over on Mount Diablo is pretty well under control as of today, and firefighters are saying they should have it all snuffed out by the
SF News Morgan Fire On Mount Diablo Now 45 Percent Contained Thankfully the wildfire burning on the back side of Mount Diablo appears to be somewhat under control as of this morning, with a total of 3,243 acres having been burned. It's now
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Mount Diablo Fire Fight Spyglass Hill snapped this excellent shot of a plane dropping retardant on top of the Mount Diablo fire now in progress.
