Update 12:52 p.m.: Terrible news: the child who had been critically injured in the fire has since died, according to CBS News.
One person was killed and another was critically injured in a fire that broke out at a public housing unit in the city's Sunnydale neighborhood, fire officials say.
Firefighters got a call this morning before 10 a.m. of reports of a fire at 76 Brookdale Avenue. "There was a lot of commotion in the background -- lots of screaming and reports of people trapped in the building," Mindy Talmadge, spokeswoman for the Fire Department, told SF Weekly.
When fire crews arrived, they found "heavy fire and smoke" in the two-story building.
"They went inside executed a search and found two people in the building -- the others jumped out the window," Talmadge says.
One died and the second was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening injuries, she says.
The fire was under control by 10:20 a.m.
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