Huge Propane Tank Fire in Mission District

If you were outside at all this afternoon (Monday), you knew there was a fire in the Mission...

From SF Gate, "A quickly spreading fire caused by the explosion of a 500-gallon propane filling station destroyed the back half of a boarded-up building today in San Francisco's Mission District. The fire, which started around 3 p.m., forced the closure of South Van Ness Avenue between 15th and 17th streets, as well as two streets parallel to Van Ness Avenue. The 500-gallon tank that exploded was on a truck that was parked in the back of a Hertz rental equipment parking lot. It took 120 firefighters about an hour to extinguish the blaze. The Hertz facility was not damaged."

Far better than the traditional media coverage, however, was a blogger named Quinn with a camera and a Flikr account. There are over 100 closeup images of the whole scene. Pretty interesting how blogs have become so much more fun (and informative) than traditional media!