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The Los Angeles Fire Department and the L.A. Department of Water and Power are still working this morning to free a firetruck from a muddy sinkhole in Valley Village.
The work will take all morning because the 22-ton engine truck needs to be lifted up and pulled out of the sinkhole in a single maneuver, said Devin Gales, a spokesman for the DWP.
Before 5:30 a.m., firefighters from Station 60 were responding to a call about flooding when they came upon running water on the road. The fire captain instructed the driver to begin backing up and had the two firefighters in the back get out to direct the truck, department spokesman Richard Matheney said.
Suddenly the ground gave way underneath the front of the truck, and the vehicle began sinking. The driver and captain crawled out of the windows and made it onto stable ground, Matheney said. No one was injured.
DWP officials say the Valley Village break was unrelated to the water main break Saturday on Coldwater Canyon Boulevard.
The work will take all morning because the 22-ton engine truck needs to be lifted up and pulled out of the sinkhole in a single maneuver, said Devin Gales, a spokesman for the DWP.
Before 5:30 a.m., firefighters from Station 60 were responding to a call about flooding when they came upon running water on the road. The fire captain instructed the driver to begin backing up and had the two firefighters in the back get out to direct the truck, department spokesman Richard Matheney said.
Suddenly the ground gave way underneath the front of the truck, and the vehicle began sinking. The driver and captain crawled out of the windows and made it onto stable ground, Matheney said. No one was injured.
DWP officials say the Valley Village break was unrelated to the water main break Saturday on Coldwater Canyon Boulevard.
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That's going to take quiet a class A tow truck...
It's probably going to take more than that. They might end up having to use a crane to lift it before they can even pull it back.The nirvana inducer-
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