VIDEO: A two-alarm fire erupted Sunday afternoon at the National Hotel in San Francisco’s Civic Center, forcing residents to flee the thick smoke that billowed out of the building.
San Francisco Fire officials said one resident was treated and released after suffering from smoke inhalation. There were no other injuries to residents or firefighters.
The hotel, located in the 600 block of Odd Fellows Way just off Market Street, offers 90 units of permanent “supportive housing to San Francisco residents in critical need.”
Fire officials said crews responded to the mid-Market neighborhood to reports of a fire at 5:30 p.m. The response was quickly elevated to two alarms.
Twenty-five fire vehicles and 75 emergency responders, including firefighters and paramedics, were on the scene as the fire burned on the first, second and third floors of the building.