Slow News Day at the Chronicle

No point in doing an excerpt, here's the entire text, complete with what must be a stock photo (right):

San Francisco Fire Department officials said firefighters responded Tuesday to an electrical lighting outlet at the Westfield Mall on Market Street that was malfunctioning, throwing off sparks and smoke.

Firefighters arrived to the mall shortly before 8 a.m., Fire Department officials said.

The sparking outlet "was quickly mitigated thanks in part to the quick response of the San Francisco Fire Department and the collaboration with Westfield building staff," Fire Department officials said.

The mall was scheduled to open at its regularly scheduled time, and no one was injured.

The Westfield Centre is the poster child for San Francisco's "doom loop." Once it was on the list of top SF destinations. Then the mall's tenants, notably Nordstrom's, preferred to incur substantial financial penalties by cancelling leases and writing off their capital improvements rather than soldiering through. The landlord / owner stopped making its loan payments and turned the keys over to the lenders.

I suppose that it's a sign of improvement that this Westfield story was a smoking electric fire where no one was injured and little damage occurred (inferred from the mall's regular opening).