Category: fires
Croak joke: Mission ‘frog sanctuary’ quietly dedicated
April 16, 2017
The fact that frogs — or maybe just one very noisy one — moved into the watery pit that was once a three-story apartment building and indoor shopping plaza at 22nd and Mission streets has been an endless source of neighborhood amusement. Now, one prankster has taken the comedy a step further — by placing […]
Man arrested following series of early morning fires (updated)
November 18, 2016
UPDATE 12/5/16: Police have released the name of the man they say is responsible for a recent string of arson fires around the Mission. Michael Boyle, 41, of San Francisco, was arrested near 19th and Florida streets at around 3 a.m. on Nov. 18, and believed responsible for 11 arson fires in the Mission and […]
2005 Capp Street fire, one of the deadliest in recent city history
September 15, 2016
Mirtha Estrada lost everything the day she jumped from her third-story window in 2005. Everything except, surprisingly, her life. Smoke had filled her apartment and she yelled for help before plummeting three stories to the sidewalk. According to an account of her ordeal written by a local non-profit, Estrada spent months recuperating at San Francisco […]
Modern landscape of the Mission
July 26, 2016
Beauty is everywhere — even in a great big hole in the ground, it seems. [Photo taken Monday at the site of the big 22nd and Mission fire by Beth Winegarner]
Car doused in liquid, burned near Dolores Park
July 20, 2016
Someone set fire to a parked car in the Mission early Tuesday morning after dousing the hood with a flammable liquid, police said. The car fire, which a reader alerted me to in the comments of recent post about a vehicle fire on Capp Street, occurred at 6:15 a.m. on the 200 block of Dorland […]
Car fire on Capp
July 18, 2016
While I was away on vacation for the past week or so, Capp Street Crap reader Avi shared this crazy video he took of a car fire at 18th and Capp streets late Tuesday night. While he could not access department logs without an exact address, San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Baxter was able […]
5-alarm fire rages on Mission Street
June 18, 2016
#Mfire UPDATE avoid smoke close Windows and doors pic.twitter.com/hq9FxLchwg — San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) June 18, 2016 UPDATE 6:32 p.m.: A fire department spokesman said the fire is now contained. ORIGINAL POST: Firefighters are still working to contain a 5-alarm fire at 29th and Mission streets this afternoon, which grew to involve six buildings, authorities said. […]
Problematic until the end, fire damaged building comes down
May 12, 2016
After two more fires broke following a January 2015 blaze that killed a man and injured six, the three-story mixed use building at 22nd and Mission streets has finally come down. But much like things have progressed since last year’s deadly blaze, the demolition did not exactly go smoothly as planned. During the tear down, […]