SF News First Spare the Air Day Is Tomorrow, New Year's Day You know that bonfire you and your hippie friends do at Ocean Beach every year on New Year's Day. Find other plans. Tomorrow, New Year's Day, will be the first Spare the Air
SF News Mission and Excelsior Fires Affect Residents On Saturday morning, a three-alarm fire tore through a building at Capp and 23rd Street. The fire displaced several residents, but luckily no one was injured. The fire, put out later in the
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 Insane Video: California Magician's Head Set On Fire By Dominican TV Host Last week, magician Wayne Houchin was appearing on a TV show with other magicians in the Dominican Republic when a guest host poured a flammable liquid on his head. Houchin's head caught fire,
SF News Fleishhacker Pool House Next To SF Zoo On Fire [Updated] A two-alarm fire broke out at the Fleishhacker pool house next the San Francisco Zoo parking lot on Saturday afternoon. Firefighters have ordered and evacuation around the area (though we're being told that,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fire Temporarily Closes Gitane A small but significant blaze broke out at Gitane on Friday night. No injuries were sustained during the fire, but it did manage to cause enough damage to the dining room to warrant
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 West Portal Doctor, Whose Office Burned Last Week, Seeks New Lincecum Jersey Dr. Fred Warren, an SF orthodontist whose West Portal office burned in that big, four-alarm blaze Friday morning which also claimed a Squat & Gobble and a ground-floor wine shop, is mostly just
SF News Chevron Moves Refinery Fire Claims Center In Richmond, over 10,700 people have filed claims to have the medical and property damage expenses resulting from the August 6th refinery fire reimbursed by the oil company. The company announced today
SF News Two People Die In Overnight Fire A little before 4 a.m. this morning, a fire broke out at 181 Vienna, near John McLaren Park in the Excelsior. Sadly, two elderly men were killed in the blaze. According to
SF News Chevron To Pay Residents Affected By Toxic Refinery Fire And finally, in crisis communications news: After Monday's fire at the Chrevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. sent a plume of black, toxic smoke into the air blanketing much of Richmond, North Richmond, and
SF News 4-Alarm Fire Roars Through Ocean Avenue A massive (though not this massive) blaze on the 1500 block of Ocean Avenue snarled traffic in the Ingleside District Tuesday morning. Firefighters responded to a call at around 5:50 a.m.
SF News Toxic Chevron Refinery Fire in Richmond Prompts Shelter-in-Place [Updated] A fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. has prompted shelter-in-place for Richmond, N. Richmond, and San Pablo. No word yet as to what caused the fire. ABC 7 News has live
SF News Grandmother Dies After San Bruno House Fire Kills Grandson A second victim has died following Friday's fire inside a home on Lake Drive in San Bruno. Lila Prasad, the 62-year-old grandmother who was found in a back bedroom suffering from smoke inhalation
SF News Child Dies, Woman Injured in San Bruno House Fire A fire broke out in a home in San Bruno this morning around 8:45 a.m. It only got to two alarms and was contained in about fifteen minutes, however one woman
SF News Three-Alarm Fire at Tenderloin Apartment Building Injures One [Updated] 540 Leavenworth is on fire, everyone. It's a residential building between Geary and O'Farrell, and there are a bunch of fire trucks on the scene, and one non-life-threatening injury has been reported. All
SF News Breaking: 4-Alarm Fire On Pier 29, Site Of America's Cup Hawkeyed Emergency Scanner listener and unintentionally humorous tweeter @Emergency_in_SF is reporting that the roof of Pier 29 on the city's northern waterfront is on fire. ABC7 confirms the structure fire, which
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 BART To Resume Service By 4 PM. Maybe. [Update] [UPDATE BELOW] After this morning's fire in West Oakland crippled your BART commute, the transit agency says that they plan on restoring service at around 4 p.m. today. Hopefully. "Meanwhile, nearly two
SF News And Now, A Motorcycle Has Crashed On The Bay Bridge Adding injury to insult, a motorcycle has crashed in the middle of the Bay Bridge this morning, blocking the middle lane. The incident occurred on the westbound, top-deck lane. This adds yet another
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 Breaking: Old Potrero Police Station On Fire The old Potrero Police Station (1912) at 2300 3rd Street in Dogpatch is on fire. This shot, snapped by Ariel Dovas at around 1:30 p.m., shows firefighters battling the blaze. No
SF News Four-Alarm Fire Tears Through Apartment Building At Valencia & Duboce At least 37 were displaced over the weekend after a four-alarm fire tore through a Victorian on Valencia and Duboce just before 10 a.m. on Sunday. The residential building is located across
SF News Man Sets Wife On Fire, Kills Her Egads. A transient man set fire to his wife on Monday, killing her. The fiery fatality occurred on the 100 block of South Second Street in San Jose. Barton Williams, 49, was arrested
