A naked man reportedly wielding a knife is being sought by San Francisco police after a fire was allegedly set at a residence adjacent to the intersection at 18th and Eureka streets in the Castro neighborhood Friday afternoon.
The San Francisco Fire Department responded to the blaze and quickly extinguished it. Police said officers from Mission Station responded at about 11:32 a.m.
to the 100 block of Eureka Street on a report of a person screaming. "Officers arrived on scene and made contact with an adult male armed with a knife who fled from the officers.
Officers established a perimeter and began conducting a search for the suspect," Officer Adam Lobsinger, a public information officer with the San Francisco Police Department, stated to