SF News Man Arrested For Setting Early Morning String Of Fires In The Mission Police arrested a man early Tuesday morning after observing him set at least two fires, and walk away from a third. The target of the alleged arsonist's fury? Fun and Christmas, apparently, as
SF News SFFD Promises Crackdown On Unsanctioned New Year's Fireworks Though illegal New Year's fireworks — that is, the pyrotechnics unleashed by that guy who lives down the block from you, not the fancy ones shot off that barge off the Embarcadero— are nothing
Arts & Entertainment SFFD Warns That Your Christmas Tree Might Kill You, Wants To Feed It To The Goats While why a felled tree is seen as a representation of Christmas is the topic of much debate, the San Francisco Fire Department doesn't care about symbolism — they just want to make sure
SF News Rise In Mission District Fires Totally Not Arson, Says Short-Staffed SFFD As rent-controlled buildings continue to go up in flames, residents of the Mission District have begun to wonder openly if greedy/evil landlords really could be using arson as a technique to clear
SF News Two Pedestrians Struck Within 10 Minutes Thursday Two women are recovering this morning, after they were struck by drivers in two separate collisions across San Francisco Thursday night. At 6:38 p.m. Thursday, a 35-year-old woman was struck in
SF News [Update] Fire At The Mission's Palace Restaurant Building Displaces 10 San Francisco firefighters are still at 3047 Mission Street at the corner of Cesar Chavez this morning. There, a two-alarm structure fire broke out last night, injuring two people. Update: SFFD maintains none
SF News Are Mission Landlords Really Burning Their Own Buildings?: An Analysis This month’s fire at 16th and Shotwell again revved up suspicions that the Mission District residential fires, now at least eight and counting so far this year, are suspicious malfeasance by profiteers
SF News Current Apartment Fire Alarms Found Inadequate By New Study An inter-agency group studying issues of fire safety met today for the final time in order to present their findings to the Board of Supervisors. The Emergency Interagency Fire Safety Task Force, consisting
SF News Owner Discusses Cause Of Smoky Mission District Fire On Sunday 3rd floor #fire on 16th and Shotwell #sffd possible building collapse. #ladderpipes up @nbcbayarea @abc7newsBayArea pic.twitter.com/jDXfQKEvsj— SF Firefighters 798 (@SFFFLocal798) November 8, 2015 Sunday's massive fire at 16th and Shotwell
SF News [Update] Stinky, Smoky Three Alarm Fire In Mission District Displaces 21 Humans, 1 Pet #MissionFire 16th and Folsom pic.twitter.com/MuEX4COlq0— Jason Brown (@SF_JCB) November 8, 2015 The San Francisco Fire Department is fighting what's turned into a three-alarm fire Sunday morning, after a blaze
SF News SFFD Removed Head Of Arson Task Force After His Repeated Complaints Regarding Shortstaffing The San Francisco Fire Department is feeling the heat today, as the former head of its arson task force claimed publicly that he was forced out of the position after repeatedly voicing concerns
SF News Yet Another Dead Body Found In Waters Near Alcatraz Nearly a year after a missing tech worker was found dead in San Francisco Bay, another body has been found floating in the same waters. According to a San Francisco Fire Department dispatcher,
SF News SFFD Quickly Extinguishes Showy SoMa Blaze It took the San Francisco Fire Department about half-an-hour to control a dramatic-looking SoMa fire Friday night, after flames broke out between two buildings. According to tweets from the SFFD union, the two-alarm
SF News Elderly Man Driving At 'High Speed' Plummets Off Sutro Heights Cliff An 84-year-old man is fighting for his life Tuesday morning, after the car he was driving hurtled off a cliff near Ocean Beach. Police say that the man was driving a white Toyota
SF News Garage Fire Breaks Out In Lower Haight At Pierce And Waller House fire near Waller and Pierce. Looks like no one hurt. pic.twitter.com/gXB5YDlcNv— Steve Bezek (@SteveBezek) September 10, 2015 The SFFD responded in force at midnight to a fire at Pierce
SF News Muni Bus Bursts Into Flames On 101 @EvanSernoffsky Sure. pic.twitter.com/pOR1VYaAKu— Kyle Anderson (@Talyn) September 8, 2015 A malfunctioning Muni bus snarled commute traffic on southbound 101 in San Francisco this morning, after the vehicle burst into flames.
SF News [Update] 7 Displaced, 1 Hospitalized After 2-Alarm Ashbury Heights Fire Major fire and structural collapse in Ashbury Heights. cc @breakingsfnews @SFGate @HuffPostSF pic.twitter.com/pWywGB1D4z— Joey Hodges (@joeyhodges) September 1, 2015 Firefighters are currently battling a 2-alarm structure fire in the Ashbury
SF News Hang Glider Slams Into San Francisco Cliff A San Francisco hang glider died Sunday, after witnesses say that he flew straight into a Fort Funston cliff. San Francisco Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeff Barden says that crews including an officer
SF News [Updated] Fire In Outer Sunset Closes Riptide Bar, Disrupts Muni Service Photo via SF Firefighters 798/Twitter A fire that broke out on Taraval between 46th and 47th Avenues this morning at 10:15 a.m. has grown to two alarms, and firefighters are
SF News Pleasant Weather Partly To Blame For Fires On Union And Castro Streets San Francisco's current dry, sunny weather is certainly enjoyable! But it also might be partially to blame for two recent fires: one that hit Union Street early this morning, and another that hit
SF News Man Plummets 300 Feet During Midnight Hike At Lands End Officials say that an 18-year-old man is lucky to be alive, after he fell 300 feet from a Lands End area cliff during a hike early Monday morning. It was 12:34 a.
SF News Did You Hear The One About The SF Firefighter With A Fake Car Registration Sticker? When KRON4's Stanley Roberts was in Hayward hanging out with a California Highway Patrol officer, he likely expected to get some speeders or light-runners on his camera. But the other day he caught
SF News Little Boy Running To Catch Muni Is Struck And Killed By Train The fatal muni accident happened at San Jose & Lakeview. Victim still under train. Crews struggling emotionally. pic.twitter.com/1bAxNpbjLw— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) May 12, 2015 A 11-year-old boy who was running
SF News Five People Seriously Injured, Two More Flee In Fire At 24th And Treat Streets Fire in San Francisco's Mission - Treat and 24th. Five people taken to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/36eDoLiWHM— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) March 11, 2015 Five people were injured, and two more people
SF News HIV-Positive Fireman Sues City Over Harassment A San Francisco firefighter who thinks he may have contracted HIV while in the line of duty says that the subsequent harassment by fellow firefighters and mistreatment by the SFFD amounted to discrimination.
