Smoke was seen pouring from the chimney of the Russian consulate in San Francisco on Friday.
Photographers with The Associated Press and Getty captured clouds of black smoke pouring from the building—a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure.
Russian consulate officials turned away firefighters who came to the building, AP reported. AP reporters said they heard a worker telling firefighters that there was no problem, adding that items were being burned in the fireplace.
It is unclear what those items were.
Black smoke billows from a chimney on top of the Russian consulate in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 1, 2017. In response to a Russian government demand for the United States to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 455, the Trump administration ordered the closure of three consular offices in the San Francisco, New York and Washington. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
