Crab fisherman affected by a four-alarm fire that caused significant damage to San Francisco’s Pier 45 last month will receive financial assistance, city officials announced this week.

The May 23 blaze destroyed parts of the pier, resulting in more than 30 fishermen losing some 8,000 crab, shrimp and black cod traps and pots in the fire.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.