Update 11:13 a.m. KQED’s Kelly Wilkinson talked to Fire Department Spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge, who said the early-morning blaze in the Castro was not arson, but an accident caused by stained rags that ignited.
Talmadge said the four previous fires in the Castro from last week are still being investigated under suspicion of arson.
Police now say a house fire near the Castro district early Monday morning was an accident, and not arson.
The fire was reported just after 3 a.m. at 1370 Clayton St., located just up the hill from the Castro district, according to a fire dispatcher. The flames were under control about 45 minutes later.
Earlier posts:
Update 9:24 a.m. From California Beat:
San Francisco Fire investigators said they did not know what ignited a two-alarm apartment fire in the city’s Lower Twin Peaks neighborhood early Monday morning and were not able to determine whether the blaze was connected to a string of suspected arson fires that occurred in the Castro District last week.
San Francisco arson investigators were at the scene of a two-alarm fire near the Castro District, looking into its cause after it was extinguished Monday morning due to four arson-fires being reported the week before in the same neighborhood. The fire started just after 3 a.m. at a two unit building on Corbett near Clayton St, reportedly on a recently constructed deck…
At least six residents were evacuated from the house, but a San Francisco dispatcher said that no injuries had been reported.
KGO has a report on the suspicions of arson surrounding the blazes: