Fire in the Mission
My apartment is right by the fire station, so I’m used to hearing sirens all the time. So, the first few I heard didn’t catch my attention. By the time the fourth went by, I could hear yelling and glass being broken. Then I heard an unfamiliar sound from the back of the house. I went to investigate, only to discover that one of the buildings across the back alley was on fire. My only response was to twitter, “Holy shit, a house down the alley is ON FIRE!“.
I quickly grabbed shoes, a jacket and my laptop (duh, I’m a nerd) and went outside.
Long story short, at least 2 buildings burned and our apartment smells smokey. No reports of injuries other than one fire fighter being treated for smoke inhalation.
Photos:
by me: http://flickr.com/photos/ryansking/tags/missionfire
by cameron: http://flickr.com/photos/ymbiont/tags/missionfire
new and video:
- http://cbs5.com/video/?id=32286@kpix.dayport.com
- http://cbs5.com/video/?id=32287@kpix.dayport.com
- http://cbs5.com/local/four.alarm.fire.2.679196.html
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/17/BA0KVLMKT.DTL&tsp=1
- http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6026609
- http://www.nbc11.com/news/15624671/detail.html
March 17th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
[…] There was a house fire in the mission district in San Francisco this evening. Actually, I think three houses burned. It was just a few blocks from our house, but some friends of ours share a back alley with the burning buildings. As we were driving home, keeping tabs on the status via their Twitter updates Thor asked me, “If we had to go home right now and grab what we could out of the house in just a few minutes to save it from fire, what would you grab?” […]