… People were sleeping and kids were running down fire escapes,” Nevarez told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It was a bad scene.”
As the fire burned during the afternoon, a pillar of thick smoke rose over the neighborhood. Authorities closed several blocks, causing massive traffic jams.
Each year, the firefighters union raises money and seeks toy donations to provide gifts to needy children. The program has operated for more than six decades and gives toys to tens of thousands of children year-round, according to the fire department’s website.
The toy drive found itself in a controversy earlier in the week when the chief nixed a plan for a group of strippers to present a $20,000 donation to the program at a city firehouse. The dancers, who raise money annually for the toy drive, presented the check instead at the warehouse where the toys were being stored.
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