A San Francisco business and an apartment building are in ruins after a three-alarm fire raced through them on Tuesday night.
More than half a day later, the smell of smoke was still in the air.
According to SFFD, the fire involved three buildings, including the hardware store, a garden-style apartment complex and a building under construction and grew to three alarms before firefighters could knock it down.“Our investigators are in the process of determining the origin and cause of the fire. That origin includes which building did this fire start in,”
“All my clothes, I mean are smoked. So, we are going to try to wash it, All my textbooks, I go to school All of those are like destroyed,” said San Francisco resident Romane Vigouroux.
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