San Francisco Fire Displaces Dozens

One firefighter was injured and dozens of workers were displaced after a five-alarm fire engulfed 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 a commercial area that straddles the city’s Mission and South of Market, also known as SoMa, neighborhoods, said Lt. Jonathan Baxter of the San Francisco Fire Department.

An auto body shop, a housing materials supply warehouse and the field operations headquarters of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department were among the properties that were damaged, the department said. About 100 workers were forced to flee the flames, and all of them escaped without injury, Lieutenant Baxter said.

Chief Jeanine Nicholson of the San Francisco Fire Department said that at one point 160 firefighters were at the scene trying to douse the flames.