{"id":172830,"date":"2026-02-11T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:48:08","slug":"sf-firefighters-rescue-injured-woman-from-hoarder-apartment-fire-in-north-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172830\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Firefighters Rescue Injured Woman From Hoarder Apartment Fire In North Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman reportedly suffered severe burns and was hospitalized after a fire broke out in her overstuffed, single-room occupancy apartment unit in North Beach on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The fire broke out around 8:30 am Tuesday inside a tiny unit at 75 Fresno Street \u2014 a small alley between Broadway and Vallejo Street, off of Romolo Place, in North Beach. Smoke was reportedly visible coming out of the apartment window into the alley.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the San Francisco Fire Department, Lieutenant Mariano Elias, tells the Chronicle<\/a> that firefighters had difficulty opening the door of the apartment due to the “hoarding conditions” inside. <\/p>\n

The woman trapped inside consequently had to be rescued through the apartment window.<\/p>\n

The elderly woman reportedly suffered second-degree burns on 75 percent of her body, and was rushed to the city’s burn unit at St. Francis Medical Center.<\/p>\n

The SFFD subsequently released the photo below of the 100-square-foot apartment unit, which was piled head-high with kitchen items, luggage, and much more.<\/p>\n

Photo via SF Fire Department<\/p>\n

It’s certainly unclear where a person would live or sleep in that space!<\/p>\n

The suspected cause of the fire has not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman reportedly suffered severe burns and was hospitalized after a fire broke out in her overstuffed, single-room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-172830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}