- City
- San Francisco
- County
- San Francisco County
- State
- CA
- Location
- 1000 block of Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
- Category
- Battery fire / evacuation
- Severity
- medium
- Priority
- medium
- Occurred On
- 2026-10-03 12:05:00-07:00
- Published On
- 2026-10-03
- Source Records
- 1
- Source
- Fire caused by bicycle battery forces evacuation of S.F. apartment building
Summary
A faulty battery-powered bicycle ignited on the third floor of a six-story apartment building, filling hallways with smoke and forcing an evacuation. Firefighters extinguished it within 14 minutes; no injuries were reported.
Verification
- Occurrence Confidence
- exact
- Publication Confidence
- exact
- Verification Status
- source-linked
- Source Role
- regional news