This afternoon putting out hot spots. Christian joins us with more on the firefight and now the investigation into what caused this fire. Christian . Certainly, alex, those firefighters said theyll be there until at least in the morning. When the first firefighters got here, you could not see your hand in front of your face. They had that much black smoke through this entire alleyway, and now we have firefighters who can be electrocuted. We can have firefighters who can be damaged or hurt by falling debris. Firefighters battled the flames, all the way dodging energized electrical lines and downed transformers. One firefighter was transported to the hospital after injuring juniories battling the fire. One firefighter who was injured is in stable condition and expected to be okay. By 1 30, crews had the upper hand on the fire, but not before it damaged six buildings along 14th street. Three residents in the area have been displaced. A half dozen or more businesses impacted. To see it go
Mind blowing. Reporter grind bartfelt said when he first heard about the fire this morning, he had no idea how bath it would be until 4th arrived on scene. High heart sunk add i saw our building up in flames when i turned the corner. Reporter he building where his family started the business more than 70 years ago appears to be a complete loss. While he hopes insurance will allow them to carry on, right now he says its simply too early to say. When the dust clears, the smoke clears, so to speak, you know, what the obviously big time damage, you know, well cross that bridge when we get to it. Reporter and lieutenant Jonathan Baxter from San Francisco fire is on scene briefing us with the latest developments. Well go to that live right now. That firefighter has recent by released from the Trauma Center and is going to be okay. We have the three displaced residents, as well as an unaccounted number of employees from the established businesses that are affected from this fire. Our Fire Dep
Alarm fire started at the rear of that mans building. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Tonight, new information about what may have happened. Ktvu has learned fryer crews were called out to extinguish a mattress fire at the rear of the big building on 14th street between south bend as an fulsome. The mattress fire was out 11 30 last night. The big fire broke out around 6 30 this morning. Live coverage now from ktvus amber lee. Our cruise still pouring water onto that fire . Reporter this is a very active seen behind me. We can see firefighters using huge trucks to put out hot spots. The fire did apartment tells me 160 firefighters were here at the peak in 20 remain here tonight. At this point, the fire is still not contained. Ive never seen a city fire spread this fast before. It was amazing. Reporter huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky as flames burned six buildings in San Francisco zenner mission district. One who had to evacuate said it
Forecast. Who came in . The guy at the castle. Pam and dave, i know he likes the weather. You approve as i agree with you. If it is too hot, theres not much that you can do this time of year. Once you get back to september, antioch and brentwood, theres a ways to go. We have another months ago. Fog, low clouds, temperatures are cool on the coast. It is warm to hot and then. Temperatures are below average, to a few degrees above. The breeze picks off. 50s for temperatures, 62 in san jose. 53 and santa rosa, one of the coolest cities. Here is the temperature change, cooler for some. No change at all for most. Concorde is 1, san jose is 2. The fog heads back to the coast. Temperatures are near average, a little bit below for most except livermore. Over to sal, on a wednesday. He tells us that things are good. Traffic is good. Steve, good morning to you. We are off to a nice start on this wednesday. You can see the bay bridge, i can show it to you here. It is moving along nicely. Ancis lit
Contagious. I dont know how you call it. Reporter tsomuka eboed mayor lee is lying in state in the rotunda where he was sworn in seven years ago. A great person. He did so much for the city and for everyone, not just, you know, a special group, everybody. Even on other parts of the world. Reporter thousands left messages in a guest book. San franciscans say they will remember mayor lee, who grew up in public housing, as a tireless advocate for everyone. He come from the bottom of the barrel. And he loved his people. The have nots. He was loving the people. And you look around you see every nationality and every color here. Reporter ashley says lee inspired her to do more Public Service and do it with heart. Over and over this week i have heard everybody say what a good person he was and if you have left the earth and thats what everybody says that youre kind, thats something that i really want to emulate. Reporter the historic significance of today is not lost on San Francisco. This is