Mission Street has a disproportionate number of buildings in violation of fire code, reports The Examiner, with the stretch between 18th and 20th Street coming in as particularly bad. According to the article:

Buildings on Mission Street, The City’s longest and oldest corridor, have amassed more notices of violation from the Fire Department than buildings on any other street in San Francisco. Not unlike the mixed-use building at 22nd and Mission streets that became engulfed in a fatal blaze in January, many structures have been afflicted by numerous violations. […]

Among those violations: fire escapes were blocked by trash, exposed wiring fed a storage shed where tenants lived atop an apartment building, and the beeps from a faulty fire alarm were present for almost a month. […]

The most common fire-code violations, each resulting in a $220 fine for landlords per inspection, are locked doors on fire routes, expired fire-alarm panels, exit signs with burned-out bulbs and absent fire extinguishers, [Fire Department Lt. Mindy Talmadge] said.

With recent prominent fires in the Mission in the forefront of many residents’ minds , the concentration of fire code violations on Mission Street gives extra cause for concern.