Five Alarm Fire

Five Alarm Fire

After burning for almost four hours, a fire destoryed two apartment buildings in our neighborhood today. It was just three blocks away from our house and rated a 5-alarm fire. For a moment there, SFist was reporting that it had reached an unprecedented 6 alarms.

Fortunately no one was killed. One resident and one firefighter went to the hospital with injuries. But it was pretty tense there for a while, with St. Frances gchatting me from work, asking that I be on standby to evacuate the kitties.

It's a little ashy still on the sidewalk out front, but it didn't come to that.