have people unaccounted for and a chance of casualties. let me walk you in here we don t want to block the fire engines. this is a residential hotel. it is six stories high. take a look. you can see the ladder going up to the roof. the fire has spread now to the attic. that is presenting a real challenge for san francisco firefighters. because as they fight this with water from the inside they are very aware that the ceiling or the roof could collapse down on them. now, this is a san franciscoan towers hotel, 150 units. it has a fair number of disabled and wheelchair-bound residents who needed to be rescued. other residents did make their way down the fire escapes on their own. the fire started in a trash exact tore on the first compactor and it went into a light well and a chute and able to travel to multiple floors. residents described their first clue was choking northeast corner. i was on the i was in my room. all of a sudden i smelled smoke. so i went out of my room
neighborhood with why it took some residents a lot longer than usual to get out of that burning building. anne, good morning. reporter: good morning. many of the people that live here at the franciscan apartments behind me on taylor and eddy were handicapped or elderly. luckily, everybody made it out okay. there were, though, 24 people injured mainly smoke inhalation. they were taken to the hospital. but again they are expected to be okay. this morning, firefighters are still here. they are trying to make sure that everything is out. in fact, small fire rekindled on the roof just a short time ago within about the past hour. so now they are going inside to make sure everything is out. they are expected to be here with one block of eddy street closed until about 8:00 this morning. here s what things look like here last night. smoke pouring from the roof after the fire broke out at around 9 p.m. firefighters believe it started in the trash compactor on the ground floor, then t
them went to the hospital following a huge fire. investigators are looking for the cause. amy hollyfield is live near the scene with the latest. reporter: firefighters are still busy on the scene but it was a rough fiem night for the victims. they were staying all night in the lobby. the red cross set this up as a temporary evacuation center. they gave everyone blankets. they also brought a muni bus here and rotated places for them to stay. they are going to load them on to a bus and actual beds, welcome relief for these people. firefighters are very busy. a huge fire battle last night for them. today they have flare-ups including a small fire on the roof. they are still watching this very carefully. it started at 9:00 at a residential building here in the tenderloin. residents say the building has false alarms and drills a lot. very common here because they have several residents that are elderly. many of them believe it was a fire when they heard the alarm. i was asleep
terisa: muni officials tell kron 4 news that a foot or fails to shut when the train is getting ready to leave the station, it is a clear indication that something is seriously wrong. that should trigger a series of steps to take. to see this can hear? johnny the muni director of operation it explains the pin is used to keep the door shut in cases like what happened during friday situation. you can take a series of actions such as at isolating the door and then securing it to close to what that cawith a pin. it insures the door will not move. we immediately to the train at of service. we inspected the fleet, during the course of the investigation it it appears that our procedures for isolating a door were not followed correctly. terisa: he said muni has launched an investigation and has placed the operator to 10 year veteran on non driving status. it separately they have a message to the public in case this ever happens again. i would underscore the fact that there s a s
yesterday. we saw a couple of clouds across the skies today not bad. but we ll see a few more clouds. 62 the high in san francisco. 67 concord. the winds will be blowing this afternoon especially at the coast and inside the bay and we have some rain coming. more on that in a minute. elizabeth has traffic. we have an accident out there it s been quickly cleared but coming up northbound 880 at westbound 92 so watch out for that. chp has just arrived on scene. there s also roadwork in that area. sounds like the westbound and eastbound ramps northbound 880 completely closed until about 5:00 so another half hour or so from now. but the san mateo bridge looks great and another accident reported or actually some roadwork rather. various lanes blocked blocked. so far not causing any big delays. more traffic coming up. in the meantime, back to you guys. thank you. some screams for help and a huge plume of smoke last night. more than 20 people now recovering from injuries from a