Wildfire on Twin Peaks floods San Francisco with smoke
News // California Wildfires
July 4, 2022Updated: July 4, 2022 6:44 pm
Smoke wafting over the city from a wildfire on San Francisco’s Twin Peaks on July 4th, 2022.
(Photo courtesy of Twitter user @crsy)
A camp fire smell wafted through the air in San Francisco on Monday evening as a wildfire burned on Twin Peaks.
Lt. Jonathan Baxter, a spokesperson with the San Francisco Fire Department, told SFGATE at 6 pm that the fire was still active and had burned about 2 acres, but crews were gaining control.
The blaze sparked near Twin Peaks Boulevard and Panorama and was burning in the dry grasses covering the hillside.
No structures are threatened and no evacuations were needed as of 6 pm
The fire department asked residents of the Twin Peaks neighborhood to close windows and doors to prevent smoke from coming into their homes.
Video footage posted on Citizen showed a large cloud of smoke rising above Twin Peaks.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation, Baxter said.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released.
Amy Graff is the news editor for SFGATE. She was born and raised in the Bay Area and got her start in news at the Daily Californian newspaper at UC Berkeley where she majored in English literature. She has been with SFGATE for more than 10 years. You can email her at agraff@sfgate.com.
