On Saturday afternoon at 1:33pm, SFFD responded to a 1-alarm fire on the fourth floor of 350 Judah, a 6-story, 34-unit apartment building between 9th and 8th avenues. Several local observers, including the Inner Sunset Park Neighbors, caught the action on Twitter:
Fire at Judah and 9th. Looks like the SF fire dept has this under control pic.twitter.com/laEN17Zlql
— Jaime Yo! (@fanofbsb4ever) March 28, 2015@njudah hey- what's all the activity in your 'hood? Fire&emergency vehicles on 9th & Judah.
— Courtney James (@CourtneyLJ) March 28, 2015
That fire at 9th and Judah is really screwing up the 6-Parnassus line. I thought the trolleybuses can go off wire for at least a mile?
— Akit (@AgentAkit) March 28, 2015
The fire was brought under control after several minutes. According to a fire department spokesperson, four people were treated at the scene, but no one was hospitalized.
Fire in under control. pic.twitter.com/7AN2AmqrX3
— Scanner Says… (@ScannerSays) March 28, 2015When Hoodline visited the scene on Monday, several fourth floor windows were protected with plastic, and debris was piled in the street below.
In December 2011, three families were displaced from the same building when a fire erupted (coincidentally, also on a Saturday afternoon around 1:30pm).
Back in 1997, DBI granted awarded a permit to add three new sprinklers and relocate two others, but it was cancelled by the agency in November 2014, "per approval of [Senior Building] Inspector B J Curran." Hoodline contacted DBI for more information, but a staffer said department records only indicate that the site was not inspected prior to the permit's cancellation.
We'll update this story if we learn more about the cause of the fire.
