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Another view of suspicious San Francisco apartment fire. Plus an explanation by The Happy Medic, via The Fire Critic.
Both Fire Critic Rhett Fleitz and I ran a video from an apartment fire in San Francisco Sunday morning that is being looked at as a possible arson. Rhett said the impression from the short clip was that the truck work seemed to be going at a much faster pace than the engine company operations. In fact, on this much longer clip (above), you can hear a lot of citizen fire critics wondering where the water was on this fire. As Rhett surmised, there was more to the story. He received an explanation from San Francisco FF/PM Justin Schorr, known as The Happy Medic:
After speaking to some of the first due folks, initial report was nothing showing from the street. Crews made entry to find the building charged with smoke, struck a working fire. Entry was delayed due to the entry door barricaded from the inside. Lines were eventually led through the window inside to make the door.Crews were able to ventilate natural openings and a lot of heat made a search of the floor above trouble.
This looks to be a 4 story type 5, likely with 12 units. Zero clearance on the sides, no easy view of the rear of the building. Getting to the roof ASAP is the easiest way to do the “360” and check all exposures, lightwells, secondary victims etc, hence the quick sticks.
