The San Francisco Giants had to evacuate their clubhouse when a fire broke out just hours before the first pitch against the Atlanta Braves Sunday.
A concession stand at Oracle Park reportedly went up in flames at around 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT Sunday with the ballpark scheduled to host the series finale between the two teams, according to Braves beat writer Mark Bowman.
With just under three hours still remaining until the game began at 4:05pm ET/1:05 PT, thankfully no fans were already inside the stadium with gates not yet scheduled to open.
Alarms reportedly went off when a small fire reportedly broke out at Fuku – a Korean BBQ stand – forcing the Giants clubhouse to empty out onto the field.
The San Francisco Fire Department responded to calls at the stadium, which is located alongside San Francisco’s South Beach Harbor.
‘The San Francisco Fire Department responded to a cooking fire in a vendor’s booth at Oracle Park,’ a statement from the SFFD read.
The San Francisco Giants had to evacuate their clubhouse when a fire broke out
The San Francisco Fire Department responded to the blaze at Oracle Park Sunday
The game will go ahead as scheduled with the Giants looking to sweep the Atlanta Braves
‘The fire was confined to the cooking area, and no injuries were reported. The park was evacuated but will be reopened shortly.
‘We thank the fantastic staff and fans for their cooperation during the evacuation at the direction of park staff and fire personnel. We were able to quickly assess the situation and confirm that the fire had been extinguished. There was no extension of the fire, no injuries, and the game will continue as scheduled.’
The game will go ahead as scheduled with the Giants looking to sweep the struggling visiting Braves.
The Giants have won the first two games of the series in dramatically different walk-off fashions. They followed Friday’s 5-4, 10-inning victory that ended on a wild pitch with Matt Chapman’s two-out, two-run homer for a 3-2 triumph on Saturday.
The wins were the third and fourth in a row for the Giants, whose walk-offs were their seventh and major-league-leading eighth of the season.
Meanwhile, the Braves, who wrapped up a recent homestand with 2-1 and 11-10 losses to the Arizona Diamondbacks, have lost six games in a row — the last four by a total of four runs.
