SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters' Iconic Chez Panisse Damaged In Fire Early Friday morning, a fire broke out at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters' noted temple of organic, locally-grown food. Fire crews responded to the scene on Shattuck Avenue around 3 a.m.
SF News There Was Also a Fire at a Marijuana Grow This Morning in the Sunset It's been kind of a bad day for the local marijuana industry, what with that hostage situation at a warehouse grow in the Bayview and all. But on the other side of town,
SF News Photos: Fleishhacker Pool Fire Deemed Suspicious, Graffiti Inside Deemed Radical The two-alarm blaze that broke out at the Fleishhacker Pool building on Saturday has been deemed suspicious by SFFD investigators. The building was part of the historic complex that once included the largest
SF News Apple Fires Mapping Software Guy Although their mapping technology has much improved since the release of iOS6, Apple has gone and fired the man responsible for making the troubled software. Richard Williamson, the employee who managed the mapping
SF News City Hall Fails To Burn Itself Down [Updated] Last night around 9:30 p.m. San Francisco's City Hall tried to burn itself down with an electrical fire. According to the Mayor's spokeswoman, the building's self-immolation attempt began in a basement
SF News Video: Innocent Muni Bus Torched During Giants Celebrations [Update] Thirty-five people were arrested during last night's World Series celebrations out in the streets of San Francisco, but not before one innocent bystander was injured: a Muni 9-San Bruno 8x-Bayshore bus that went
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four-Alarm Fire Devours West Portal Squat & Gobble, Shuts Down Muni Early this morning around 4:40 a.m. a fire broke out in a Squat & Gobble café near the West Portal Muni station. By 6:30 a.m. a fourth alarm was
SF News Two Richmond District Porta-Potties Went Up In Flames Last Night In what could be the return of the infamous toilet torcher, or just the work of some mischievous neighborhood punks, Bay City News reports two portable toilets were "engulfed in flames" in the
SF News Two-Alarm Western Addition Fire Claims One Life, Damages Historic Development [Updated] Around 9:50 a.m. this morning a two-alarm fire broke out at an architecturally significant apartment building near St. Mary's Cathedral on Geary Boulevard in the Western Addition. The fire was under
SF News Arson Suspect Arrested After Bayview Flophouse Erupts In Early Morning Blaze At least one home is destroyed and several others were damaged when a suspicious four-alarm fire broke out around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning in the Bayview. According to police, two women in
SF News BART-Crippling Fire Officially Ruled As Arson The four-alarm fire that stopped transbay service on BART for nearly 12 hours earlier this month has officially been ruled as arson, according to the team of ATF agents and local authorities tasked
SF News Early Morning Brushfire Breaks Out At Stern Grove Homeless Camp Around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning firefighters responded to reports of a quickly moving wildfire inside the park at Stern Grove in the Outer Sunset. According to SFFD Captain Kevin Smith, the fire
Arts & Entertainment Pier 29 May Be Demolished, America's Cup Ready To Give It A Makeover Anyway The newly rainbow-anointed Pier 29 suffered over $2.4 million worth of damages in yesterday's 4-alarm fire on the waterfront. The bad news is that the historic facade (the only part of the
Arts & Entertainment Photo: SFFD Douses Pier 29 In Rainbows Around 6 p.m. this evening, fire fighters were still on the scene of this afternoon's 4-alarm fire, dousing the embers and making sure everything was under control at Pier 29. Local ace
SF News This Guy May Or May Not Be Trying To Burn Down The Castro A suspect arrested last week for sparking a fire that threatened to burn down a home near Market and 17th Streets may be the very same Castro arsonist who started a string of
SF News PG&E Has Valve Shutoff Problem Again in Last Night's Four-Alarm Portola Blaze Yet again, PG&E is being blamed by firefighters for taking way too long to shut off a gas main during a four-alarm fire at a construction site yesterday afternoon. Two hours
SF News Oakland Hills Brushfire Breaks Out Near 580 [Updates] A smokey brushfire broke out in the Oakland Hills around 1:45 p.m. this afternoon. The fire was apparently started by fallen power lines on an access road by the freeway. The
SF News Has The Toilet Torcher Returned To Terrorize Noe Valley? Although when San Francisco's infamous Toilet Torcher made headlines by lighting up over 20 porta-potties in 2009, we haven't (ahem) caught wind of any cases of portable toilet arsons for a while. When
SF News Look, Just Don't Burn Anything Today, OK? Today, Thursday January 12th is the fourteenth Spare the Air day of the Winter Season. By now, you've gotten the gist of what that means: the air is cold and lung-clogging, phlegm-inducing particulates
SF News Someone Is Trying To Burn Down Novato Novato has been terrorized by 50 separate, small, suspected arson fires in the last three days, most of which have been in garbage cans or on small, four-square-foot patches of grass or brush.
Arts & Entertainment Post-Yule Pyre, S.F.'s Firey Christmas Tree Disposal Event, Alights This Sunday Sure, temporary holiday arborists can send their dry and withering Christmas trees to the wood chipper starting this week. But why put DPW and Recology through all that trouble for just a tiny
SF News Woman And Her Two Dogs Die In San Leandro House Fire 48-year-old Valorie Rogers-Rumph and her two dogs, a rottweiler and a pit bull, were found dead in a San Leandro home Monday morning after neighbors reported fire coming out of the home. The
SF News Rural Californians Unhappy That They Have to Pay to Have All Those Wildfires Put Out Earlier this year, Jerry Brown was threatening to impose a $150 fee on all rural residents of the state in order to offset the costs of Cal Fire programs, which costs the state
SF News SFFD Battles Early Morning Mission Apartment Fire A two-alarm fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. this morning near Bartlett and 24th Street in the Mission, leaving two victims in critical condition. SFFD has yet to determine the cause
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Ice Cream Today at the Three Twins Fire Sale [Update: All Gone!] Not that we ever find delight in the wake of a major fire that displaced 31 residents, but Three Twins Ice Cream whose Fillmore Street shop was in the same building as last
