The Roof is On Fire!
This is just down the block from me; I couldn't drive up to my house because the entrances/exits were blocked and there were cops everywhere...and firemenses. I drove up and saw that there was a BIG hole in the wall of the house I just drove buy this morning. With firemenses looking through it from the inside. Yikes.
I had to park up the hill and walk through some shady grassy areas to the house. There was a police car blocking the entrance to my street. Sigh. I waited until the car left before I went back out and moved the car back to its rightful place (although i had to work around the blocked areas to get back home).
(04-27) 22:55 PDT San Francisco -- A three-alarm fire raged through four buildings tonight in the Little Hollywood neighborhood of San Francisco, displacing up to ten residents, fire officials said.
The fire was first reported just after 7:30 p.m. at 15 Blanken Avenue, a wood-frame building with commercial space on the first floor and a residential flat above it, according to Lt. Ken Smith.
Easterly evening winds quickly whipped the fire into two adjacent homes, as well a vacant building on nearby Bayshore Blvd. that used to house Cliff's Barbecue, said Smith.
A third alarm was called at 7:53 p.m. But by 8:15 p.m. firefighters had the blaze under control, officials said.
Several of the residents were away for the day and had not returned home by the time the fire was extinguished, said Smith. The Red Cross was at the scene to offer shelter and assistance to those affected, he added.
There were no fire-related injuries, but an elderly woman who lived in one of the homes was taken to the hospital for an unrelated medical condition, according to Smith.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, he said.
Tyche Hendricks