Lafayette Elementary School and the Lincoln Park Playground were damaged by two suspicious fires each last month.
Lafayette Elementary School and the Lincoln Park Playground were damaged by two suspicious fires each last month.
As if a suspected arsonist torching the Great Wall Hardware store on Taraval Street were not bad enough, within a week, burglars ransacked the business twice, making it that much harder for the owner Albert Chow to recover.
More than 100 firefighters worked to extinguish a three-alarm fire that broke out in the 700 block of Irving Street on Aug. 8. Four buildings were impacted, including one on Eighth Avenue.
A burglar broke into Frank’s Floral Shop at 1821 Irving St. by prying the door frame from the wall. After getting $8 for the trouble, what started as theft then became arson.
The cause of a fire that shut down five businesses and displaced residents at the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 18th Avenue was unintentional, according to an incident report from the San Francisco Fire Department.