SF News Port of Oakland Lithium Battery Fire Sent Plumes of Black Smoke Over the Bay Sunday A black smoke cloud spread over the San Francisco Bay on the Sunday afternoon of Mother’s Day, as a reported lithium battery fire broke out at the Port of Oakland.
SF News Fire Burns Three-Story Apartment Building In Nob Hill A fire broke out Thursday morning at a residential building on Jackson Street near Leavenworth in SF's Nob Hill neighborhood, and it was disrupting cable car service.
SF News Early Morning Two-Alarm Fire Consumes Vacant Presidio Heights Building A large fire just before 4:30 am Friday morning consumed a four-story residential building at Lyon and Clay streets, but fortunately no one was injured, as the building was vacant and still under construction.
SF News Early Monday Morning RV Fire In SF's Bayview Spreads to Nearby Warehouse Before Being Extinguished An RV fire broke out around 2:30 am Monday morning on Newhall Street in the Bayview District, and quickly spread to an adjacent warehouse. The fire was extinguished within a half-hour, but the RV is obviously totaled.
SF News Kitchen Flue Catches Fire at Indian Oven Restaurant In Lower Haight A one-alarm fire that appeared to start in the kitchen of Indian Oven in the Lower Haight injured one person and has temporarily closed the restaurant.
SF News Two Injured, Including Child, In Lower Nob Hill Apartment Fire Two people were injured, including one child, and ten people were displaced by an apartment fire Tuesday night in Lower Nob Hill.
SF News San Francisco Cracks Down on E-Scooter and E-Bike Fires with New Battery Fire Codes After mobility device battery-related fires spiked in the past few years, the San Francisco Fire Department changed its codes regarding lithium-ion batteries, and they went into effect Thursday.
SF News Fire at SoMa Apartment High-Rise Leaves Hundreds Without Running Water or Electricity A Wednesday fire at the 40-story Paramount apartment tower at Mission and Third streets has left hundreds of tenants without electricity or running water, and very limited elevator service to navigate the building’s dozens of floors.
SF News Early Morning Fire on Divisadero Contained to Ground Floor, No Residents Displaced From Units Above A small fire at a mixed-use building on Divisadero was quickly contained Tuesday morning, and was kept from spreading to residential units. Meanwhile, a house fire in Portola displaced a family of five.
SF News Nick’s Cove Boat Shack In Tomales Bay Went Up In Flames Late Sunday Afternoon, Structure Destroyed A 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon fire completely engulfed the boat shack at the restaurant and vacation getaway Nick’s Cove in Tomales Bay, and that particular component of the 92-year-old Marin County destination appears permanently destroyed.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In NoPa Leads to Multiple Injuries, Several Buildings Impacted Around one hundred San Francisco firefighters were on the scene of a residential fire in the Western Addition/NoPa neighborhood Monday morning, and one person was hospitalized with injuries after jumping from the burning building.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Chef Speaks Out, Launches GoFundMe After Fire Destroys the Restaurant Despite its building being decimated by a fire and red-tagged, the hit West Oakland restaurant Horn Barbecue was still handing out free turkeys to those in need Wednesday afternoon. Chef Tyler Florence was on hand helping, while a GoFundMe campaign seeks to rebuild the place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland’s Horn Barbecue Severely Damaged by Early Tuesday Morning Fire Less than two days after the celebrated Horn Barbecue was thoroughly tagged with graffiti, the building is now effectively ruined for the time being after an early Tuesday morning fire has left the West Oakland building red-tagged.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire on Valencia Street Leaves Three Injured A fire Tuesday morning tore through a building on the 900 block of Valencia Street in the Mission District, and the SF Fire Department had to rescue five individuals from the blaze.
SF News Shopping Center Fire Sends Smoke Soaring Over Livermore Sunday An abandoned shopping center in Livermore went up in flames Sunday evening in a significant blaze.
SF News Another Tent Fire In Hayes Valley Has Neighbors Angry A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.
SF News A Retired Riverboat In Vallejo Caught On Fire Saturday, 4 Occupants Rescued The once-famous tour boat, a replica 19th-century paddle-wheel riverboat that had been evicted from Long Beach around 2018, had apparently fallen into ruin before the blaze at its Vallejo anchorage Saturday.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Destroys Vacant Commercial Building Near Mission and 26th A commercial building on Mission Street between 25th and 26th streets went up in flames just after midnight Wednesday night but luckily did not spread to a residential building next door.
SF News SF Residential and Commercial Fires Troublingly on the Rise, Fire Department Says Fires in San Francisco buildings hit a ten-year high in 2022, with several big ones striking this year too, as fire officials point out that residential, commercial, and encampment fires are all happening more frequently.
SF News Progress Hardware, Yancy’s Saloon Both Still Shuttered After Last Week’s Inner Sunset Fire Last week’s three-alarm fire at Irving Street and Eighth Avenue is still creating fallout, as Yancy’s Saloon is still closed, and Progress Hardware has turned to crowdfunding in hopes that the shop can survive.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Inner Sunset Fire Damages Apartment Building, Hardware Store A two-alarm fire in the Inner Sunset impacted at least 12 residential units; a Novato man was arrested twice for hate crimes; and Oakland has had three homicides in 72 hours.
SF News Fire at North Beach's Historic Liguria Bakery Quickly Contained There was an oven fire Friday morning at Liguria Bakery in North Beach, and while it sounds like it was quickly extinguished, the extent of any damage is not known.
SF News Hayes Valley Neighbors Raised Alarms About Encampment Fires Months Prior to Construction Site Blaze The cause of Tuesday morning's four-alarm fire on Octavia Boulevard remains under investigation. But a neighborhood group is suggesting the city did not heed their warnings from two months ago about fires at homeless encampments in this very area.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire In Hayes Valley Destroys New Building Under Construction, Displaces Eight In Nearby Buildings A major blaze broke out Tuesday morning around 6 a.m. that sent flames into the sky on Octavia Boulevard, threatening neighboring buildings and disrupting the morning commute for some in San Francisco.
SF News Semi-Truck Full of 40,000 Pounds of Chocolate Goes Up in Blazes in Placer County A real meltdown in the Placer County city of Colfax, as a semi-truck carrying 40,000 pounds of chocolate burst into flames early this morning on I-80, and that 40,000 pounds of chocolate is still sitting there in the sun.
