Presidio heights articles
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60 firefighters respond to fire in SF's Presidio Heights
Sixty firefighters battled flames at an unoccupied four-story apartment building in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood on Friday morning, officials said. The San Francisco Fire Department said the first report of the fire at Lyon and Clay streets came in at 4:26 a.m. “The fire was so large on their arrival, so they immediately struck a second alarm, which immediately brings a second round of firefighters to the scene,” Capt. Justin Schorr, a spokesperson for the department, told...
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Sunderland pilot hits the heights with debut novel
A pilot from Sunderland who now flies the super-rich around on luxury planes in the United States has called on his his considerable life experience to write his first book. Dean Corbyn's debut novel is called The Jorvik Prophecy. He wrote the book while he was grounded with many other pilots during the covid pandemic; and now it has been published. The novel is a supernatural mystery story, about a "paranoid New York dentist’s journey to York, England to unravel her ancestral mysteries - and...
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Richmond Heights couple takes on literacy gap
Reading and writing can be overlooked as essential skills as for many people it’s second nature. The reality is a literacy gap continues to exist in America. According to the Foundation for Family Literacy, Ohio ranks 23 out of 50 in the United States in proficiency- with 1 in 4 counties in Ohio showing 20% […]