Thursday’s San Rafael Apartment Fire Now Deemed ‘Suspicious,’ One Person Confirmed Dead

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/22/thursdays-san-rafael-apartment-fire-now-deemed-suspicious-one-person-confirmed-dead/Investigators are still going through the wreckage caused by Thursday morning’s San Rafael apartment building fire, and they’re now confirming at least one person died, but the origin of the blaze is being classified as “suspicious.” We are starting to get some updates on Thursday morning’s very large 19-unit apartment building fire in San Rafael’s Canal District that left eight people injured, two people missing, and between 50 and 60 people displaced from their homes. And the news is not good. KRON4 reports that one person has now been confirmed dead in that fire, according to the latest update from the San Rafael Police Department. Poli