Firefighters are investigating a three-alarm fire that destroyed one under-construction home and damaged two others in Ocean View Friday night, San Francisco fire said.
The homes damaged at around 11 p.m. Friday were part of the Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco construction site, located on Capitol Avenue near Sagamore Street, spokeswoman Lindsay Riddell said.
After seeing smoke and flames coming from one of the homes, fire crews were able to fully contain the fire a short time later, limiting the damage in the low-income housing construction site.
“The fire at Habitat Terrace is obviously disheartening, but we are grateful it didn’t spread beyond these three homes,” said Phillip Kilbridge, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco. “The community that helped us build these homes will be the community that returns to rebuild them. This is yet another way Habitat provides inventive solutions to our area’s expensive real estate challenges.”
Eligible families who helped build the homes would have also been able to buy them. Habitat for Humanity has spent the last year working on them.
"Obviously this is a set back," Kilbridge said. "But the community of volunteers, and the community that's helped to build this home, and others, I'm sure, will return and help rebuilding."
Riddell said volunteers who want to help rebuild the damaged homes can go to the non-profit's web site.
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The cause of the fire is still under investigation and no injuries have been reported.
