Fire burns apartment building next to popular San Francisco Outer Sunset bar
SAN FRANCISCO -- Crews responded to a 1-alarm fire Saturday afternoon that burned a residential structure adjacent to the Riptide bar in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood.
Video posted to social media shortly before 3 p.m. showed smoke and flames rising above the roof of the popular watering hole at 3639 Taraval Street near Ocean Beach.
In fact, the blaze was burning in a two-story multi-residential building next door. It broke out at 2:17 p.m. and was quickly contained with no injuries or rescues, according to an SFFD post on X.
As of 3:30 p.m. it is not known if the bar sustained any damage from the fire or firefight.
UPDATE
— SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA (@SFFDPIO) June 8, 2024
This 1-alarm fire that was dispatched at 2:17 PM with over 40 firefighters on the scene is now contained at 2:56 PM
The building is a 2-story multi-residential structure, and this fire resulted in no injuries or rescues, in part due to many 911 callers and the fast… https://t.co/DD1EsvXhbq pic.twitter.com/gIRbbN4tvo