{"id":205164,"date":"2026-03-05T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:12:08","slug":"lithium-ion-battery-cause-of-san-francisco-hotel-fire-1-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205164\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium-ion battery cause of San Francisco hotel fire, 1 hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hcn35voamaasj02.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Firefighters respond to 1-alarm fire on San Francisco&#8217;s 6th Street.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Firefighters are at the scene of a one-alarm fire at a hotel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco<\/a> near 6th and Market streets on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The San Francisco Fire Department posted video and photos to social media at 9:16 p.m. of fire engines with a ladder drawn at the Seneca Hotel, located on the 40 block of 6th Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The fire department said in their post that the fire was contained to the room of origin on the fourth floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">At least one person was injured and taken to a hospital, according to the fire department&#8217;s incident commander at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The fire department is asking for people to avoid the area of 6th and Mission and Market streets due to the emergency vehicles working in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Fire officials said a lithium-ion battery is the cause of the fire. No further details were immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Firefighters respond to 1-alarm fire on San Francisco&#8217;s 6th Street.\u00a0 SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Firefighters are at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-205164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205164","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=205164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}