{"id":405837,"date":"2026-07-20T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:10","slug":"was-there-an-explosion-in-san-francisco-today-incident-at-24-hours-fitness-on-montgomery-st-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405837\/","title":{"rendered":"Was there an explosion in San Francisco today? Incident at 24 Hours Fitness on Montgomery St- What we know"},"content":{"rendered":"

An incident at 24 Hours Fitness on Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco<\/a>, California on Monday afternoon triggered panic around a possible explosion. Many residents reported hearing a loud explosion sound in the nearby areas.<\/p>\n

\"Representational.Representational. (Unsplash)<\/p>\n

As of now, no confirmation has come from the San Francisco Police Department about a potential explosion on Montgomery Street. According to Citizen app<\/a>, which sends emergency alerts based on user’s reports, the incident seemed to a fireworks incident mistaken for a possible explosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Multiple residents of downtown San Francisco reported on social media about hearing a loud boom sound this afternoon. Many thought it was an explosion, with some even claiming that their “buildings were shaking.” Residents say that firetrucks are now responding to the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid someone just set off an explosion in sf,\u201d asked one user <\/a>on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cLoud explosion heard in downtown SF. Curious to learn details,\u201d added another<\/a> who heard the blast today.<\/p>\n

Montgomery Street is a major north-south street in San Francisco’s Financial District, running through the heart of downtown. It stretches from The Embarcadero near the waterfront westward into the Financial District before continuing south.<\/p>\n

This story is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An incident at 24 Hours Fitness on Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco, California on Monday afternoon triggered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8,162710,101,152509,103,102,104,152510,106,105,3586],"class_list":["post-405837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california-news","tag-explosion-in-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-explosion","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-explosion-today","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405837","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=405837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}