A mattress fire early this morning on South Van Ness near 18th Street may have been a case of arson, according to police.
At 3:35 a.m., an SFPD officer spotted a burning mattress leaning against a building and used an extinguisher to put it out. There are no suspects.


Setting fire to nasty, bedbug-ridden mattresses just might be the best way to get rid of these curbside eyesores.
Would you please either orient your maps with north at the top, or explain your compelling reason for not doing so? They’re confusing, annoying, and difficult to defend to folks who are not among the in-crowd. Thank you.
I know, surely there is a way to “rotate 90 degrees” or, instead of showing maps just show a pic of something relating to the news story.