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San Francisco Tenderloin fire at 6-story aparment building 6%
By KTVU Staff9%
7/19/2026, 7:25:57 PM
Keywords: San Francisco
BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Halo Effect, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 42.6% saturation with 87 hits. Analysis detected 138 faulty-reasoning hits from 204 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.5% and a BS Rank of 6% (17,616 of 18,666 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.40% of the article peer group.
Firefighters are working to extinguish a two-alarm fire at a six-story Tenderloin apartment building just after noon Sunday in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Fire Department posted about the fire at 12:09 p.m. to say residents of the building at the 400 block of Jones Street at Ellis Street have been evacuated.
SF Fire said they were working to extinguish the fire that is on multiple floors.
The fire spread through the building's light well.
Three people suffering from smoke inhalation were being evaluated.
One of them was transported to a local hospital.
The Red Cross is assisting residents who were displaced.
Fire officials said the police department, PG&E, and the water department are also at the scene.
Video shared by the department showed firefighters at the scene entering the building with tools as black smoke billowed from 424 Jones Street's front gate.
Another video shows firefighters' ladders extended onto the building.
The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management alerted residents to avoid the area due to the fire and because emergency crews were working the scene.
There is no word yet on the cause of this fire.
It is unclear how many residents are displaced.
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