- Over 18 people were rescued from a multi-unit residential-over-commercial building fire in San Francisco in the early hours of Thursday morning.
More than 18 people were rescued from a fire at a multi-unit residential-over-commercial building in San Francisco in the early hours of Thursday morning, officials said.
The San Francisco Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire on the 800 block of Fillmore street at around 1:56 a.m. Thursday. Crews arrived to find heavy fire coming from the second floor of the three-story building with trapped occupants.
The building was described as being a commercial first floor with multiple residential units on the second and third floors. Due to both the heavy fire and the “need for extensive rescue operations,” a second alarm was struck, bring additional units to the scene…