#mission fire

[panchmaticc]

La mission , after the fire there is now just a hole . I miss this spot

[webuiltthiscity]

A Good Samaritan is coordinating requests of donations of specific items for those displaced in the La Lengua fire at the link above. The Salvation Army will be collecting/distributing them. There is also a GoFundMe for cash donations at: http://dt.gofund.me/2a6gsws&rcid=cab7dfac363211e6a734bc764e065880

[themarshtheater]

Support our Mission Community and Victims of the Fire on 22nd

Residents congregate across the street of the building they once called home. Photo by Daniel Mondragón.

During last week’s Marsh Rising of HEY HEY LBJ, a Vietnam’s Vet story, it felt like a war zone. A fire raged a block away, helicopters were circling (the sound was muffled inside by our MainStage’s new soundproofing), leaving 54 residents homeless and 30 businesses damaged.

If you want to donate to and find out more about a fundraising drive that is going directly to the victims, please go to http://www.gofundme.com/l1hrw8.

We are also looking for more ways The Marsh can support this drive.

Meanwhile, we will have a donation jar for fire victims at the shows. So see this week’s FINAL 3 San Francisco performances of Josh Kornbluth’s HAIKU TUNNEL and make a donation.

Or go to Saturday’s performance of Brian Copeland’s THE WAITING PERIOD and make a donation.

Or go to Berkeley and see Aaron Akins’ INTO THE COLE, an evening of Nat King Cole, and make a donation (we will get it across the bay).

Or take your family to Unique Derique’s FOOL LA LA!, enjoy the post-performance circus workshop for the whole family, and make a donation.

Or watch REPORTS FROM THE ZEN HOSPICE improvs on Mondays and Randy Craig and Friends on Wednesdays.

And the fund will still be going as we start these new shows!

Don Reed’s STEREOTYPO: Rants and Rumblings at the DMV 2/13 (SF) Geoff Hoyle’s LEAR’S SHADOW 2/18 (SF) Charlie Varon’s FEISTY OLD JEW 2/21 (Berkeley)

P.S. To make a donation: http://www.gofundme.com/l1hrw8.

[fickleforever]

Firefighters battled a four-alarm fire at the large three-story building that occupies the corner of 22nd and Mission Street for more than five hours Wednesday evening.  They continued to work past midnight after the flames had been contained, but not completely extinguished. As of 8:50 p.m., there was at least one confirmed death, an adult male. Fire chief Joanne Hayes White said that the cause of death had not been confirmed. At least six additional people were being treated at an area hospital for smoke inhalation and burn wounds and more than 40 residents were displaced. The Mission Market and a corner Popeyes dominate the ground floor of the three-story building, more than a dozen offices occupy the second floor and dozens of tenants occupied the apartments on the third floor.  Many of the tenants have been in the building for years.  The building is next to the new luxury high-rise, Vida that has only recently opened. Janet Kornblum, a ...

It was “Terrible,” said Kornblum. There were people trying to escape. “A boy on the fire escape with a dog and people just standing around recording,” she said.

“I escorted a bleeding man to firefighters,” she added. “No one thought to help.”