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Officials describe rapid spread of construction fire in Mission Bay; no adjacent buildings lost
Summary
City staff and the fire department updated commissioners on a large construction fire in Mission Bay South that required a defensive strategy because of exposed wood framing and lack of active fire protection; staff said adjacent buildings were protected and full damage assessment is ongoing.
Assistant Chief Postel told the commission that San Francisco firefighters responded to a five‑alarm fire at a market‑rate building under construction in Mission Bay South on March 11, 2014, and adopted a defensive strategy because the upper floors were wood‑framed and lacked drywall, sprinklers and alarms. "When the exposed wooden members were exposed to the heat and flame, there was rapid fire spread," Postel said, and the department decided to protect exposures rather than risk firefighters' lives by interior operations.
Catherine Riley, the Mission Bay project manager, said the building (identified in staff materials as a roughly 170‑unit market‑rate apartment;…
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