Explosion in San Francisco's Outer Mission District

Three treated for injuries

By Brigid Gaffikin

May 25, 2007

Police are at the scene of an explosion in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood this morning, a police officer at the Ingleside Station said.

An arson inspector has been called out to 5315 Mission St., a strip of mostly small retail businesses, the officer said.

Police "got there, they saw the windows of the cleaners blown out," Gittens said.

A man and a woman living in the unit, at 5315 Mission St., took themselves to the hospital for treatment after the 6:44 a.m. blast, he said.

Another man who was in the unit was treated at the scene, a fire dispatcher said.

The explosion is not related to a cleaner's business at the front of the multistory building, police said.

The neighborhood is a strip of mostly small retail businesses, a police officer at the Ingleside Station said.

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