Firefighters spent about an hour on a one-alarm fire in Bernal Heights early Wednesday. Eight people were displaced and are getting help from the Red Cross.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Palm trees and the San Francisco skyline from the top of Mission Dolores Park on a sunny day. Photo: Mélanie Lacroix (mlle_farfalle) / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
A fire in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood early Wednesday, Oct. 28, displaced eight people, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.
What happened
The one-alarm fire in the 900 block of Peralta Avenue was first reported around 5:10 a.m., NBC Bay Area reported. "Crews fought this fire for 1 hour before it was contained," the fire department said on social media.
No injuries were reported. The American Red Cross is helping the people who were displaced.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Sources
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