One firefighter was injured and dozens of workers were displaced after a five-alarm fire consumed six commercial buildings in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, the city’s Fire Department said. The fire was first reported at 6:30 a.m. at 13th Street and South Van Ness Avenue, just off Highway 101, in the city’s South of Market, or SoMa, neighborhood, said Lt. Jonathan Baxter of the San Francisco Fire Department. An auto body shop was among the businesses that were badly damaged, the department said. The police began ordering people from nearby residential buildings on 14th Street just after 7 a.m. About 100 workers around the buildings were forced to flee the flames, Lieutenant Baxter said.

Source: New York Times July 28, 2020 17:07 UTC