Firefighters Scramble After Smoke Pours From Russian Consulate Chimney In San Francisco

With evicted Russian diplomats scrambling to collect their baggage and vacate the San Francisco consulate in hours ahead of the September 2 deadline, the AP reports that “acrid, black smoke” was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate on Friday.
However, instead of sabotage, it appears the Russians were engaged in some last minute creative document “redaction.”
Firefighters who arrived at the scene were turned away by consulate officials who emerged from inside the building. An Associated Press reporter heard people who came from inside the building tell firefighters that there was no problem and that consulate staff were burning “unidentified items in a fireplace.”

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 1, 2017.