Firefighters responded around 4 a.m. to reports of a fire alarm and smoke at the complex on the 500 block of Baden Avenue, according to a news release from the South San Francisco Police Department. Upon arrival, firefighters found that one unit was entirely engulfed by flame. The rest of the building was evacuated. Firefighters then worked to extinguish the burning unit and put out the fire quickly, authorities said. Damage to the unit was limited.
He said insulation was slowly burning in the walls and between the two buildings, which has led to smoke and high levels of carbon monoxide. This is going to be a prolonged event every time we thought we had it under control, it came back up, said Jessop, adding residents of both buildings have been evacuated. This is certainly probably the most challenging fire to extinguish that Toronto has seen in years.
A Sunday fire in an Everett apartment complex is being investigated as suspicious, according to the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services. The Everett Fire Department responded around 1:50 a.m. to 25 Charlton St., where they were met with heavy smoke and an active sprinkler on the building's sixth floor, the department said on social media. The fire was extinguished quickly, the department said.
Large numbers of police descended on an apartment building in the German city of Munich on Wednesday after a fire broke out inside, followed by loud explosions. One person was seriously injured, a police spokeswoman told AFP in the Bavarian state capital of Munich. She did not confirm media reports that shots had been fired and that one person had been found dead.
A second death has been confirmed at the site of an early morning apartment fire in San Rafael on Thursday. The body of a woman was found on Friday, and the fire is being deemed suspicious because of how rapidly spread. [KTVU] Police in Yerington, Nevada busted a 48-year-old man on his way to Burning Man allegedly toting a large haul of narcotics and prescription drugs, packaged for sale.
