SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – For the second time in as many weeks, a San Francisco apartment fire that burned off of Divisadero Street has displaced about a dozen people.
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The San Francisco Fire Department said firefighters had contained a three-alarm fire at Divisadero and Haight streets as of 4:58 p.m. on Wednesday. Twelve people were displaced, eight days after a three-alarm apartment fire a handful of blocks away displaced 13.
No civilians were injured in Wednesday's fire, according to the fire department. Officials said one firefighter sustained mild to moderate burns.
Fire officials directed people to avoid the area, where they said a "multi-residential over commercial building" was burning in what was initially characterized as a two-alarm fire. San Francisco DJ Juan Amador tweeted a video of Phuket, a Thai restaurant, on fire. Phuket, located at 248 Divisadero St., sits along the intersection with Haight Street.
It's unclear what caused the fire, which officials will now investigate. So far, its start is not considered suspicious.
"We had heavy fire showing from the top floor, on the corner here on the Divisadero Street side," Deputy Fire Chief Bob Postel said on Wednesday afternoon. "We had difficult access. There were narrow stairwells that gave access to the top floor. They were able to contain the fire primarily to the area of origin at the front half of the top floor of the main fire building."
Eight days before Wednesday's blaze, San Francisco firefighters responded to a three-alarm apartment fire a half-mile away at Divisadero and McAllister streets. That fire injured one resident and two firefighters.
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