Person Dies in Friday Night Apartment Fire in SF’s Cow Hollow Neighborhood

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/01/resident-dies-in-apartment-fire-in-san-franciscos-cow-hollow-neighborhood-halloween-night/Firefighters received a report of a two-alarm apartment fire at 9:25 pm on the 1500 block of Filbert Street Friday night. A person in a third-floor unit where the fire started was found dead, as SFFD says they were potentially delayed by hoarding conditions. As the Chronicle reports, the San Francisco Fire Department arrived on the scene in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood at 9:41 pm and witnessed heavy smoke coming from the third floor. Per KPIX, Fire Chief Dean Crispen said suspected hoarding conditions in the unit, along with a cluster of wires on Filbert Street, made the fire challenging to extinguish. “We had initial repo