#structure-fire

#structure-fire

A fire tore through several homes in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood Wednesday morning, and three people required rescue, including one who was injured jumping from a window. The fire began around 6 am Wednesday at a three-story home on the 1300 block of 47th Avenue, near Irving Street. The blaze rose to two alarms, and soon two adjacent, two-story homes were also involved.

The two-alarm fire broke out in a three-story home on the 1300 block of 47th Avenue just after 6 a.m., then quickly spread to the homes to its right and left. Fire crews have extinguished the flames ripping through the neighboring homes, but they are still fighting the blaze in the home where the fire originated. San Francisco Fire Chief Dean Crispen said the home's wood balloon framing allowed the fire to grow quickly and posed challenges for containment.