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SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Bank in the Castro District was the latest scene of a one-alarm fire in San Francisco, officials said.. The fire broke out at 443 Castro St. around 4 p.m. Saturday and was ...
July 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM. BUENA PARK, Calif. - A four-alarm fire broke out at a shopping mall in Buena Park. The Orange County Fire Authority responded to a call of a fire at the Big Air ...
The Town Council held a special called meeting that afternoon and passed a resolution to organize a fire department. [3] [4] The resolution states, in part, “Therefore…..to protect the town against another such calamity by organizing fire companies”, and the San Francisco Fire Department was born. Town Council met on January 28, 1850, and ...
On December 2, 2016, at about 11:20 p.m. PST, a fire started in a former warehouse that had been unlawfully converted into an artist collective with living spaces (named the Ghost Ship) in Oakland, California which was hosting a concert with 80-100 attendees. The blaze killed 36 people, making it the deadliest fire in the history of Oakland.
Joey Horta. June 24, 2024 at 10:28 PM. SAN FRANCISCO - A 3-year-old boy is being credited by San Francisco firefighters with saving an apartment from burning down. Firefighters arrived at the ...
1851 – San Francisco Fire of 1851 destroyed 2,000 buildings. 1852 – Vaasa, Finland; 1852 – Great Montreal Fire of 1852 in Montreal left 10,000 of the city's 57,000 residents homeless. [15] 1854 – The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead, England, started by a spectacular explosion, killed 53 and leveled substantial property in both towns.
February 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM. A Waymo driverless car was vandalized and set on fire in San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday night. (Séraphine Hossenlopp / San Francisco Fire Department Media) A ...
The China Basin fire was a five-alarm fire [1] that occurred shortly before 5:00 p.m. on March 11, 2014, in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. [2] The conflagration appeared to completely destroy Block 5, a 172-unit building, [3] part of Mega Blocks 360, [4] a US$227,000,000 apartment complex being developed by San ...