SF News SFFD, SFPD Stumped By Second Outbreak Of Torched Cars In Past Month Less than a month after three vehicles were damaged in an as-yet-unsolved carson in the Castro, four more cars were torched early Wednesday morning in what one San Francisco official is speculating might
SF News Castro Carsonist Burns Three Vehicles Wednesday Morning A van, and SUV, and the bumper of a sedan were all damaged after what police say was an early-morning case of car-arsons in the Castro. According to the San Francisco Police department,
SF News Week-Old Body Recovered From Waters Near Alcatraz A ferry captain made a gruesome discovery during Tuesday morning's commute: a dead body, floating in the waters near Alcatraz island. According to the Merc, the captain of a ferry headed from Sausalito
SF News Woman Killed Near Lands End Had Recently Moved To San Francisco Womn dies, man rescued who fell down cliff at Lands End. Warning signs say "keep out" pic.twitter.com/SVEZnNdhbq— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) October 30, 2014 Randi Salmon, a 26-year-old woman who
SF News Conflicting Reports After Boater Slams Into Pier 52 And Dies A man is dead after his boat slammed into a Mission Bay Pier early Wednesday morning, reportedly the victim of a throttle mishap. According to KCBS, a distress call was made from the
SF News SFFD Called To Ocean Beach To Rescue Distressed Swimmers Four Times Wednesday It was a tough day at Ocean Beach Wednesday. The San Francisco Fire Department and the US Coast Guard responded to four — yes, four — reports of swimmers in trouble, and rescued three men,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ai Weiwei Not Way Awesome? The Chron's review of the Ai Weiwei installation on Alcatraz is not great! [Chron] Uber is putting the screws to new drivers, charging a 25-percent commission to all newbies who sign up as
SF News SFFD's Homeland Security Head Demoted After Strange Sonoma Car Accident The assistant deputy chief responsible for the San Francisco Fire Department's response in the case of terrorist attack has been bumped way back down the chain of command following a curious collision in
SF News Please Be Careful By The Cliff House So SFFD Doesn't Have To Rescue You (Like It Did These Folks) It was a glorious Labor Day weekend on the west side of San Francisco. Sunny and warm, a great weekend to hit Ocean Beach. Maybe the warm breezes were enough to make some
SF News It's Only A Drill: SFPD, SFFD Vehicles To Take Over First Street For Thursday LARP Were I Hans Gruber, Thursday morning would be the day I'd pull off my latest heist, as that's when a large number of San Francisco's finest will be diverted by a "joint training
SF News Arrest Made In 'Suspicious' Bernal Heights Death [Update] The San Francisco Police Department is investigating what they're describing as a "suspicious death" in Bernal Heights, after firefighters who discovered a body suggested that there was more the the case than meets
SF News Serious Injuries After FedEx Driver Strikes Cyclist And Passenger On Handlebars Both a cyclist and a second person riding on the bike's handlebars were seriously injured this morning, after the driver of a FedEx truck struck them as they headed up Market Street. Emergency
SF News SF Firefighter Puts Stop To Crazy Pickup Truck Rampage When a man stole a truck from a Lower Haight construction site, it seemed like nothing could stop him as he drove into cars, down a one-way street in the wrong direction, and
SF News Knife-Wielding Woman Sets Fire To Folsom Street Foods Co. What is going on with San Francisco's grocery stores, people? On the same day that a security guard was stabbed at the Haight Street Whole Foods, a woman with a knife set fire
SF News SF Fire Crews Find Woman Dead In Possible Hoarding Situation One woman is dead after an early-morning fire in a San Francisco apartment that displayed "evidence of hoarding," the San Francisco Fire Department says. At 5:10 a.m. Friday, fire crews were
SF News Bryant Street Closed After Water Main Break Floods Road In the second such incident this week, a water main has broken and is flooding a stretch of Bryant Street Thursday morning. According to San Francisco Public Utilities Commission spokesperson Amy Sinclair, the
SF News 8-Inch Water Main Breaks, Flooding Sunnyside Street Crews are working to repair a water main break in San Francisco this afternoon, fire and SFPUC officials said. According to SF Fire Department spokesperson Mindy Talmadge, fire crews responded to a report
SF News Ambulance For Toddler Killed By Toppling Statue Was Significantly Delayed When a statue in front of a Fisherman's Wharf business toppled onto vacationing toddler Kayson Shelton, SFPD officers and San Francisco firefighters arrived on the scene almost immediately. However, perhaps the most important
SF News City's New 911 System Is 'A Nightmare,' Say Dispatchers The City of San Francisco's brand-new, multi-million dollar 911 dispatch system is reportedly full of software glitches that have longtime dispatchers worried about the safety of police officers, firefighters and regular citizens who
SF News Five-Alarm Mission Bay Blaze Blamed On Welder Though they can't identify a specific worker as the culprit in the March 11 fire that destroyed that under-construction condo development in Mission Bay, the investigator's report into the blaze concludes that the
SF News Three Injured In Three-Alarm Oceanview Fire Friday Morning Friday morning around 6:30 a.m. a fire broke out on the 100 block of Bright Street in Oceanview, near the edge of Daly City. The blaze damaged four houses, eventually gutting
SF News Firefighters Put Out Three Small, Concurrent Fires This A.M. What's with all the fire lately? In a twenty-minute span this morning, between 6:10 and 6:30 a.m., three fires broke out within a mile and a half of each other,
SF News Firefighters Battling Blaze In Bayview [Updated] Firefighters at ardath and Hudson in San Fran. Single unit fire. Some residents evacuated. No injuries tho pic.twitter.com/bRUloodFqO— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) April 22, 2014 Over on the 60 block of
SF News Mother And Three-Year-Old Child Killed In Wednesday Morning Fire Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, San Francisco fire fighters responded to a call of a one-alarm fire in a two-story housing project on Brookdale Avenue in Sunnydale. The fire was under
SF News And Now, A Rescued Tabby Reunites With Owner After Dolores Fire The fine firefighters of San Francisco rescued this scared little fella from a burning apartment building on Tuesday. As SFist reported earlier, SFFD was especially good at making sure all the building's pets