Firefighter injured in 4-alarm fire in San Francisco's Castro District

Thursday, October 20, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco firefighter has been injured while fighting a four-alarm blaze in the Castro District, firefighters said at 1:10 a.m.

The firefighter is being taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries as crews continue to fight the fire, which was classified as a four-alarm just before 1 a.m.

The blaze was reported at a two-story house at Market and Hattie streets. It was classified as a one-alarm working fire at 12:20 a.m. and upgraded to a second alarm five minutes later.

Just before 12:40 a.m., the blaze went to a third alarm.

Videos posted to the SF Firefighters 798 Twitter account show thick smoke and flames burning through the roof.



No further information was immediately available.
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