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
SF News No Cats Injured, Nine People Displaced After Fire At 14th & Dolores Residents of the six-story building that suffered that two-alarm fire yesterday at 87 Dolores Street will likely be allowed back in their homes today after power is restored to the building all but
SF News SF's Emergency Water System Probably Not Earthquake-Ready In the wake of that major fire in Mission Bay on March 11, in which firefighters tapped into the city's not widely known, 100-year-old, high-pressure emergency water system, the Chron has done some
SF News SFFD And SFPD Feuded During Asiana Crash Investigation Fire Department officials and at least one firefighter stand accused of being evasive and dishonest throughout the investigation into the death of 15-year-old Ye Meng Yuan following last summer's Asiana Airlines crash at
SF News SF City Workers Rake In Fabulous Annual Salaries Forget Tweetooglebook. The real money can be found working for the city of San Francisco—specifically, the San Francisco Fire Department. Why? Overtime. According to Matier & Ross, "more than 700 San Francisco
SF News SFFD Battling 2-Alarm Fire In Presidio Heights Multiple San Francisco fire department crews are currently at work battling a 2-alarm fire on the third floor of a home in Presidio Heights. STRUCTURE FIRE (update): 2nd Alarm called by crews having
SF News Firefighter Accused Of Running Over Asiana Crash Victim Now Suing City For Defamation A 25-year female veteran of the SFFD who was "falsely" accused of being the driver of the fire rig that ran over and ultimately killed 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan after last July's Asiana
SF News A Bomb Exploded In A Neighborhood With $4 Toast Last Night Last night in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco Police detonated a suspicious device found in a home behind the Western Sunset Market at Judah and 46th Avenues. That is so many avenues. Who
SF News Fireworks Blamed For Lighting Up Yerba Buena Island Fire Niners and bluegrass fans heading out of the city Sunday evening were met with a slow-moving traffic jam on the Bay Bridge thanks to a vegetation fire, possibly sparked by fireworks and dry
SF News Firefighter Who Ran Over Asiana Crash Victim May Face Charges The investigation into the tragic, post-crash death of 16-year-old Ye Mengyuan following the Asiana Airlines disaster in July has been completed, and the firefighter responsible for running her over may face charges. As
SF News Father, Daughter Die In S.F. House Fire Early Friday morning in the Sunset District neighborhood, a father and his 2-year-old daughter died during a two-alarm fire. The fire started in the garage of the house, located in the 1900 block
SF News Grass Fires Breaks Out In Golden Gate Park, Bernal Hill Tuesday Evening Just after 7 p.m. last night a small grass fire broke out in Golden Gate Park behind the Conservatory of Flowers and quickly spread to some surrounding vegetation near the street at
SF News Suspicious Package Found On Third Street In SoMa [UPDATE] Update: All clear. Sidewalk reopened. Firefighters have taped off the sidewalk on Third Street between Stillman and Harrison in SoMa this afternoon after a suspicious package was found. Motor traffic is moving at
SF News Breaking: Muni Bus Catches Fire On Geary Boulevard ABC7 and KTVU are both reporting that a Muni coach has caught fire on Geary Boulevard at 28th Avenue out in the Richmond. Firefighters are on the scene hosing it down and all
SF News Helmet Cam Footage Reveals Details Of Asiana Flight 214 Victim's Death In the ongoing investigation into the death of Asiana Airlines flight 214 passenger Ye Meng Yuan, helmet camera video from the fire battalion chief Mark Johnson has revealed new details in the moments
SF News Asiana Crash Victim Hit By Firetruck After Being Pulled From Plane By Rescue Worker Well, this is even sadder than the originally assumed sequence of events: It turns out that the 16-year-old girl who was run over by the firetruck responding to the crash of Asiana Flight
SF News Fireman Who Injured Motorcyclist While Allegedly Driving Drunk May Be Fired 20-year SFFD veteran Michael Quinn may be getting terminated as a result of a June 29 accident in which he was suspected of drinking and driving, and a motorcyclist was severely injured. Quinn
SF News Coroner Confirms Asiana Flight 214 Victim Was Killed By Emergency Vehicle 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan survived the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, but died a short time after the crash due to "crushing injuries that are consistent with a motor vehicle collision," the
SF News Breaking: Two Dead, Shelter-In-Place Reported After Brannan Street Shooting [Updated] Around 2:20 p.m. Friday afternoon, San Francisco Police and Fire Department units responded to reports of a shooting on Brannan Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets in SoMa. The units responded
