News today via Celia Sack of Omnivore Books that fire and police were converging on Noe Valley:
She also
Tweeted that Search/Rescue and HazMat were on the way, too. @bling0 confirmed with more detailed information:
Neighbor @coudron pinpointed the location and confirmed evacuation:
And while
we figured it wise to stay away, other neighbors were more adventurous. A nearby neighbor sent us the scoop:
I overhead some of the people who live in the building that was evacuated talking ... apparently a guy who lives in one of the units is a bit strange and recently has been getting stranger, possibly a paranoid schizophrenic. Over the last few months, he’s been switching numbers on people’s doors as if he doesn’t want someone to find him, leaving notes around the building about Donald Trump wanting to blow things up… fun stuff like that. Then today he called the police with a bomb scare, saying someone was trying to blow up the building. When the cops arrived they found some stuff in the front of the building that didn’t look right and decided to play it safe and call in the bomb squad. According to their report, the crazy neighbor was taken into custody by the police, screaming in the back of the police car. You can tell they were really tired of this guy.
Of course there will probably be more
once the police start talking and the news crews figure out how to find this dead end street. Stay tuned.
Update 3:45pm:
Residents in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood are being evacuated this afternoon after police detained a man and then called the bomb squad to the area, a police spokesman said.
Around 12:40 p.m., police were notified about a suspicious person in the 4100 block of Cesar Chavez Street, Officer Gordon Shyy said.
Arriving officers found a man in the carport area of a residential building and detained him.
While responding, officers determined there were a suspicious object or substance in the area and called for the department’s bomb squad and hazardous materials team to come to the area.
Homes on the dead-end street were evacuated around 1:45 p.m. and the intersection of Castro and Cesar Chavez streets was blocked off to pedestrians and motorists, Shyy said.
As of 2:50 p.m., the area remained shut down.
No injuries have been reported, Shyy said.
Sasha Lekach, Bay City News
Update 4:30pm: The helicopters are gone.
