thanksgiving morning. linda yee is live with evidence just released aimed at finding the driver. linda? reporter: it all started with a fight in a fast food restaurant in san francisco. tonight, here at san francisco general, the firefighter s fellow firefighters, as well as the family are at his bedside, praying for his recovery. police say california state firefighter albert bartle got into a fight with another customer at a jack in the box restaurant. police say this is surveillance video of that customer before the fight. he s in the long white t-shirt standing at the counter. the men were separated and bartle walked out. investigators say that s when the other man followed bartle in his car and intentionally hit the firefighter when he reached a gas station at 9th and gary. the suspect drove off. bartle is in critical condition, with severe head injuries. this is a horrible experience that no fireman, police officer, nobody would ever want to have to go through this.
at this apartment complex are describing the past 24 hours. oh, no! reporter: this cell phone video shows massive flames coming from that second floor apartment at around 6:00 last night, a fire that started when a woman was cooking french fries. got distracted, went into the bedroom. they were in there doing cross word puzzles. then all of a sudden the smoke alarm alerted them of the smoke. reporter: this picture posted on twitter shows the fire, after it moved from the pan to the cupboards to the entire kitchen. the 70s-era building doesn t have many windows and spread quickly. smoke and water damage, firefighters didn t know how bad this would get. the whole complex was evacuated for a few hours. 200 to 300 people, worried about what they would come back to. we re not from here. we re from other country. reporter: the red cross set up a shelter at a high school next door. we had nowhere else to stay. reporter: his family is one of 16 evacuated indefinitely