It took 110 firefighters to douse a massive blaze that tore through three buildings in Nob Hill on Saturday, leaving one person hospitalized and displacing several.
The four-alarm fire ignited just after 6 p.m. in a four-story apartment building at 1664 Larkin St., officials said.
The flames raced up three floors and spread to a building behind the apartments, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.
The SFFD declared the blaze under control by 7:46 p.m.
Crews rescued one dog and one cat, which were reunited with their owners.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, and a fire watch was in effect overnight.
The Red Cross and the San Francisco Human Services Commission were helping displaced tenants.
A pair of GoFundMe fund-raising campaigns created Sunday sought to rally financial support for several tenants. In one campaign, roommates Cooper Eastman and Adam Cesana, both 23, said they had moved into an apartment in February and “quickly fell in love with the space we had built and the neighborhood and community around us.”
They need money to find a new home and replace their furniture, clothing, and other “everyday essentials,” their GoFundMe campaign said.
A separate GoFundMe campaign, created by family members to support tenants Jackson Hukari, Tyler Reed, and Drew Nofsinger, noted that “the boys had just recently moved into their first place out of college, with one of them moving in as recently as a week ago. All of their belongings and nearly everything they’ve ever owned were lost in the fire.”
On Monday, Hukari said he was grateful that “my roommates and I were away from the building” when the fire struck, and called the concern and care from friends and community membrers “nothing short of remarkable and deeply touching.”
