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The Los Angeles Fire Department has reported to nearly 100 spraying-into-the-air fire hydrants across the city. And that's just since August 29th--49 days ago. For the most part, they happen in traffic accidents or when people play bumper car with a hydrant, but occasionally on hot days, you'll get kids using them to cool off. The height of the water depends on the size of the main. In commercial areas, the water mains are larger (as seen below) vs. residential areas with smaller ones.
If you were driving La Brea yesterday around 5:15 p.m., you may have caught this at the corner of Willoughby in front of the 99-Cent Store:
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The LAFD used two fire trucks to block La Brea at the intersection during the repair. This was not good as it was the height of rush hour. On a positive note, that intersection is pretty filthy and needed a good hosing down.
What a waste of perfectly clean drinkable water. Wait.. maybe not so much.
Saw one on Venice last night.. I think that was an accident. I wonder what the breakdown of the causes are..
I saw Bruce Willis on top of one of those once.