A fire alarm technician with a fake certification signed off on a fire alarm system that reportedly failed during a deadly blaze in San Francisco’s Mission District in 2015.
2 Investigates found Tom Jue has been working on Bay Area fire alarms for more than a decade using another company’s license number. And he continued to work unlicensed even after the Mission District fire, according to recent reviews on the Yelp page for Tom Jue & Company. The inferno broke out in the 3200 block of 22nd Street in the Mission District on the evening of Jan. 18, 2015. The flames caught dozens of families off guard, with residents reporting that they didn’t know about the fire until neighbors ran through their apartments to jump out of windows. In one case, a small boy jumped with his dog.