Arts & Entertainment 'Saw' Ad Campaign Brings Awareness To Discriminatory FDA Blood Donation Regulations In a new ad campaign to promote Jigsaw, the Saw sequel nobody saw (sorry not sorry) coming, Lionsgate threw its money and weight into highlighting a longstanding issue with healthcare. In addition to
SF News Fire At Noriega And 21st Leaves 3 Injured, 9 Displaced A 2-alarm fire at 1814 21st Avenue has left three people injured and nine Sunset residents without a home. The fire began at 6:41pm on Friday night and according to SFFD, was
SF News Sixteen Displaced, One Injured In Three-Alarm Fulton Street Fire In #SF right now a major fire on Fulton between Baker and Lyon pic.twitter.com/SBp4YziJaD— Chris Golden (@chrisgolden) February 14, 2016 Sixteen people have been displaced and a young boy injured
SF News Donate To Red Cross To Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims The wake of Monday's two-mile-wide tornado in Moore, Oklahoma -- a natural disaster that killed dozens and has been billed by some as "the worst tornado in the history of the world" --
SF News How To Help Hurricane Sandy Victims Hurricane Sandy brutalized the East Coast Monday night, resulting in fires, widespread power outages, death, and jarring scenes of flooding in New York City and elsewhere. Though it's still too early to figure
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 Donation Information For Western Addition Fire Victims While the exact number remains unknown, loads of people lost their homes and belongs after today's five-alarm fire in the city's Western Addition. A ruined holiday season is the least of their worries.
SF News Massive Fire Displaces Dozens, Destroys Historic Sequoia Building In Berkeley A huge blaze, which has been described as the largest in the area since the Berkeley/Oakland Hills fire in 1991, burned inside the historic 39-unit Sequoias apartment building at Haste and Telegraph
SF News Bay Area Red Cross Asks for Help With Urgent East Coast Blood Shortage Due to Hurricane Irene, word has hit that an urgent blood supply shortage is now officially rampant on the East Coast. The Red Cross is asking Bay Area residents to donate as soon
SF News 48-Unit SoMa Fire Displaces at Least 75 Wednesday night's three-alarm fire that ravaged Park Hotel on Folsom Street left over 75 San Franciscans homeless. The Red Cross set up shelters to cover the displaced for the night, and will continue
SF News Watch this Video Featuring a Little Girl Screaming in Horror During Japan Tsunami, Then Donate $10 Using Your Phone By now most of you have seen ample footage of the tsunami that followed Friday's massive earthquake in Japan. We want you to look at one more, please. According to RussianToday: "[the footage
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire Update: 0% Containment Just letting you know that the fire -- which as of late this afternoon has consumed thousands of acres since it started at around 5:30 a.m. this morning -- is "completely
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire: Animal, Human Evacuation Info For those of you fire victims with large animals (i.e., horses, emus, et al.) or even not so large animals (i.e., Sprinkles, et al.), a Capitola reader just informed us that
SF News 6.0 Nevada Earthquake Reminds Bay Area To Get Ready Oh dear. A hefty-sized earthquake hit northeastern Nevada this morning. You know what that means, don't you? Time to sound the alarm for everyone in the Bay Area to get prepared. Not sure
misc Bernal Heights Fire Leaves Two Homeless A two-alarm fire at Bernal Heights home caused the displacement of two elderly folks. The blaze happened at 266 Nevada Street around 6:30 p.m. this evening. According to the Gate, "[f]
SF News Two Bombs Found in SJ, Fremont Good Lord, people. It seems that we had not one, but two bomb scares yesterday. First, bomb no. 1: after stopping a car for a routine traffic violation in San Jose, police found
SF News How to Help Your Fellow Californians/Fire Victims As of now, six people have died and more than 500,000 people are in "mass migration" over the mind-numbingly destructive wildfires happening all throughout Southern California. It is, for lack of a
misc Wow, a Whole $100,000. Gracias, America! We can only hope that every single news outlet has printed a typo when reporting the amount of cash the United States is sending Peru, which is still experiencing severe aftershocks. As the
misc SFist Cares ... About Being Prepared September is supposed to be "National Preparedness Month". We've been out of school now for something like ten years but we still miss buying school supplies and figure this is a great place
misc SFist Cares: Special Edition - Katrina We're a week on from when Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast of the US and still rescue efforts are continuing. . They're not over by a longshot but the progress that's been made
SF News Save Crescent City! Though New Orleans was spared the worst of Katrina, it doesn't mean that's it's all coming up roses for the Big Easy. A levee has broken, folks who evacuated may not be able
Arts & Entertainment Hipsters Lend a Helping Hand The tsunami benefit show at 12 Galaxies last night was a huge success, with a packed house and great acts raising over five thousand dollars for the American Red Cross' disaster relief efforts.
SF News Take Action for Tsunami Relief Two dear friends of SFist wrote in to let us know about local tsunami relief events. Your Waitress wants photobloggers and everyone else to know that HiMY SYeD, Toronto native and current Bay
SF News Doing More Shortly after the terrible tsunami in the Indian Ocean, SFist Mary-Lynn put together a great SFist Cares feature. But as the extent of suffering has begun to become fully apparent, we felt that
