By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix
The San Francisco Fire Department is trying to quell neighborhood concerns that a wave of arson is behind a rising number of fires in the city’s Mission District this year.
The department took the unusual step Monday of publishing the number of blazes that caused major property damage in each of the city’s Board of Supervisors districts since 2012 — with a special emphasis on such incidents in the Mission. The report says that over the last four years, investigators have identified just one intentionally set “property damage fire” in the neighborhood.
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