{"id":11174,"date":"2025-12-16T02:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2025-12-16T04:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:01:44","slug":"gas-station-explosion-at-16th-and-guerrero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/gas-station-explosion-at-16th-and-guerrero\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas station explosion at 16th. and Guerrero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/54987166943\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/54987166943_4871810266_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/54987166943_4871810266_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, 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burning gasoline filled the cold winter air tonight in the area around 16th. and Guerrero streets in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission District in the aftermath of the explosion of a gas station&#8217;s underground tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2025\/12\/sf-gas-station-explosion-fire-16th-guerrero\/\" title=\"\">According to Mission Local<\/a> the explosion occurred just after 4:30 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Shell gas station had been closed in recent days and fenced off for renovation work.  It&#8217;s currently unclear if the explosion is related to the construction. No injuries were reported at this time, and neighboring buildings did not appear to have sustained any damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This gas station is located just under a block away from the location where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/in-remembrance-kitkat-the-bodega-cat-of-16th-and-valencia\/\" title=\"\">a Waymo vehicle killed KitKat<\/a>, a beloved neighborhood bodega cat. Both incidents share a commonality: the dangers posed by the automobile extend beyond the driver&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: A nearby redditor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanfrancisco\/comments\/1pnp8fm\/i_was_eating_across_the_street_from_the_gas\/\" title=\"\">posted a video of the inferno.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The noxious odor of burning gasoline filled the cold winter air tonight in the area around 16th. and Guerrero streets in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Gas station explosion at 16th. and Guerrero - MrEricSir.com","description":"The noxious odor of burning gasoline filled the cold winter air tonight in the area around 16th. and Guerrero streets in San Francisco's Mission District in the"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[35,1519,218,20,38,23],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-16thmission","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-gasoline","tag-news","tag-photos","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11183,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}