For those who are less familiar with the make-up of the water supply system in the Los Angeles region, understand that the L.A. Basin is essentially a desert for many months of the year. Domestic water is brought into the region from hundreds of miles away through aqueducts, and stored in reservoirs. The water supply is, in many cases, both fragile and finite. Having a 2,000GPM "leak" in the water system for more than a few minutes can really begin to take a toll on the system's capacity and capability, both for firefighting water and for potable water. For this reason, the FD is tasked with and trained for emergently containing leaks from sheared hydrants. And L.A. uses wet-barrel hydrants; the water comes up the barrel right to the caps, even when it's turned off. This is beneficial to them because each cap has its own valve, and supply lines can be connected/disconnected while other lines on the same hydrant remain flowing. This is why there's no cut-off valve when the hydrant is sheared. As always, be reminded that it isn't wrong just because it isn't the way your department or city does it.

“Mom, I fixed the pressure issue in our garden hose”

These firefighters gained a new appreciation for warm dry socks!!! Job well done!

A little disappointed that you spent so much time filming this and didn’t catch the actual shutting off of the geyser! 😢

I'm from England and the only time I saw this happen is on films when cars always seemed to hit a hydrant!

Damn didn’t know everyone was suddenly a fire hydrant expert

If they understood that hydrants are tapped off the main using a saddle connection with the valve located between the tap and the hydrant 2 to 10 feet directly from it, they wouldn't have wasted time operating the wrong valve 60 feet from the hydrant.

The house on the corner going to have some real nice green grass.

Well done. We had to call City Water Works to shut off broken or frozen hydrants. Winter here in Canada made it more interesting creating really cool ice sculptures.

Haha I felt bad for the guy that had to get in there with their hands

I like the new lime green safety coats i see the LAFD has purchased , that’s truly different for them to do that...👌🏽👍👍

The joys of being the station rookie.

This is a common sight after I visit Los Santos.

Legend has it it’s still going

Watching your video, bring back many memories of growing up in the L.A. area and a fire hydrant happen just like your video. I lived there from 1969-1991.

I remember on Emergency where they had this unusual call. The Squad has to extract the driver of the wrecked car and the engine company has to turn off the main until a new hydrant is installed.

We use to paint our hydrant valves half blue half yellow, it made it easy to know what was a hydrant valve. You might look at the other hydrants to see where there valve is located.

At least the grass was watered and some one got free car wash lol.

You got to respect these guys.

In a system that large I would be surprised if the pump station even noticed this. I worked got the WW for 7 years in IN. A contractor tying in an water tower knocked off the 24” valve, took 10 mins before pump station saw the drop in pressure. Contractor called screaming in about a minute. We had it shut off in 40 mins. I think I heard we lost over a million gallons.

Those guys are standing under a lot of falling water. Wow. Like a decent Waterfall in the Sierras.

Per National Fire Code if a fire hydrant is struck by a vehicle the exposed hydrant top is designed to break away from the main body of the fire hydrant to prevent a water ruptured like in video. In this case the hydrant body must have broken off from the 6" water main extension pipe servicing the hydrant, or a shear coupling was not installed for water to be shooting up to the sky like this. Every fire hydrant is designed to stay seated by water main pressure if the hydrant top is sheared off from the stem due to its upside down seat and disc design. Each fire hydrant is also to have its own isolation valve located 3'-5' from the hydrant. This is required to isolate only the hydrant for maintenance or replacement instead of having to isolate the entire water main loop keeping water service from homes and businesses. What's going on here is a puzzle.

Salute to the firefighters.Good job.

If the valve was properly maintained that would have been a 5 minute job

The most noble job in the world. I give you love and respect. in korea

Thats One Way to Get your Shower 👩‍🚒👨‍🚒

Wouldn't bother about having a shower would ya if you was the fireman under that waterfall 😂

Ah the water flow alarm 🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒👍

I'm surprised not to see a comment about why two pieces of apparatus were sent. In this case LAFD ladder trucks have no pumping capability and no water tank so a regular Type I engine always accompanies the ladder truck. They always have an engine number that is 200 above the truck. Here this is Truck 94 accompanied by Engine 294. Station 94's regular engine would be Engine 94. At station 101 you would have a Light Force with Truck 101 and Engine 301. There are single Type I engines and some stations with only a single engine. When a regular engine joins a "Light Force" it is then called a "Task Force." At the time of this call, the regular Engine 94 might have already been assigned or is one with a paramedic on board, so they might give the hydrant calls to Light Forces only, I don't know. I imagine it is now DWP's job to make the repairs to place a new hydrant at the location. Years ago, now some 47 of them, when I lived in L.A., the LAFD had "plug buggies," which were a pickup with a single firefighter. I think they did preventative maintenance and tested the hydrants to make sure they were working on some sort of schedule, like once a year or something. Do they still use those units?

Im so tired of web trolls giving videos a thumbs down. YOU try to follow LAFD on a radio and film for 45 minutes! Great video!

It actuallly looks so refreshing for a city in the middle of the desert 😊 Of course not right where the hydrant is sheared but maybe just being around the zone

6:24 oops, wrong valve. This is the benefit of dry-barrel hydrants, even in no-freeze areas....

Well done guys! I know you were exhausted! At least the " geyser" was water & not a gas line leak. I wonder how much water was lost?

تحية لرجال الاطفاء الابطال👍👍👍

I hate when people leave the scene of a crime ! Hopefully someone seen who hit the hydrant.

This is why sub surface hydrants are a good idea.

We have dry hydrants and where we are in the mountains, have about 175.0 PSI which would shoot water quite a bit higher than they have going here. Cool idea for clearing the valve box though!

Decades ago the hydrant down the street was knocked off. My 17 year old sister took a bottle of shampoo and in her late 1970s bikini washed her hair. Only to be stopped by the CHP as she was in full view of the hollywood freeway and was causing a traffic jam. Juanita and middleberry streets FYI. it was a hot day.

Looks fun on a hot day !!

That was beautiful

Where's the Water Dept! They should buy the FD dinner for doing their job.

so nice bro. অনেক সুন্দর হয়েছে

Thank you for fixing it

Also this is why I say we need auto cutoff valves in place in case a hydrant is damaged

2:40 just reaches down and turns off water.💪

Interesting we don’t see this back east I always wondered how this was done

Хорошо что не горячая вода...обашлось.Красивый был фонтанчик..

That Sweet great thanks

it really took them a long time to get that water to stop, and when i am 20+ then im gonna get a job for a fighterfire

Just remember the warmer climate have these types of HYDRANT. Colder areas have a break away on ROD to base. The barrel is dry, it drains ( Hopefully) just depends on area of USA you live in.

احلى لايك حبيبتى الناس للناس حبيبتى ربنا يوفقك يارب العالمين اختى الجميله احسنتى النشر اختى الجميله

I hope they re opened the 1st value they closed in case that was part of the main water line to the homes close by.

This is a pumpers paradise

Exelente video

Really awesome

Learned something new, I thought all hydrants were breakaway.

If nothing else, the road is now clean..

It took me years of letter writing to get the hydrant on Wilton place at 5th st moved to avoid it being knocked off constantly and unusable. station 29 can you hear me. I finally cornered the 29 captain one day and pointed it out. I wonder if the power box on Wilton and wilshire is still wrapped in a yellow fiberglass blanket as the panel over the infused power cables is still missing after 10 years.

It’s so beautiful

A few weeks ago,there was a big water brake on the street and I was skateboarding and 5 seconds later after I passed the hole,water squirted everywhere luckily I didnt get wet but the firemen called some people to fix it,they didnt fix it because there was a emergency and they were leaving

Just put some flextape over it

Good job fellas

Yes definitely another advantage of having a dry barrel hydrants up here in the ole mtns of tn they would have broken off been replaced in a few hours without the waterlost. Wonder why they went to that first valve looks like they all should have a valve in front of the hydrant.

11:54 "Hey Sarge, can ya give us a hand?" 11:55 "Voila, magic wand waved for ya!" Seriously though, great job LAFD for tackling all issues with the city!

Super Video 👨🏻‍🚒

It's like watching Moe,Larry and Curly!

I just have a suggestion to all American Firefighters services. In France our firefighters have very efficient helmets. You should use the same protection helmets.🚒🍀🚒💫

I bet the kids loved it and was yelling at the firefighters leave it alone lol

Nice to see this.

Meanwhile back at the Colorado River, it's draining like a bath tub!

Exelente labor los felicito Dios me los Bendiga 🙏

When my wife's water broke was the same.

i could even smell that water just by watching the video

Impressive video J! Love the thumbnail.

I feel like that was a missed opportunity for the kid's in the neighborhood. Those firefighters got soaked, lol.

Selute to fire force department. 🙏🙏🙏🐅🐅🙏

Wow fantastic....v nyc..

When he was hitting the tool with a rock I was waiting for another geyser to come blowing out of the hole they were working in.

They forgot the soap lol good job

Good job firemen!

En Chile el servicio de Agua atiende estos casos,, por lo visto aya lo asen los bomberos buscando la válvula de pie como sele llama aka en Chile.. Excelente trabajo de los bomberos,, para cortar el agua del hidrante afectado muy bien,, saludos desde chile 🇨🇱 🇨🇱 🇨🇱 🚒🚒🚒

Good job.

Sure I can't use more than 50 gallons a day, but they can have a Bellagio fountain in the rich area of town ?

That's not something you get to see everyday. Nice video.

This video reminds me of everything about her

Working for L A County fd, I knew when they went to the first valve it was way to far away. Come on man

One thing about it they are not getting heat stroke.

Glamorous

En France il y a 12 bar de pression pour l’incendie et le diamètre sous terre est de 80/90 cm

That grass was very watered

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Where'd all that water go? It doesn't seem to be flooding much.

Mom I took a shower out side

It is what it is. I have heard a lot of calls for these over the decades but this is the first time I got to see what happens once they arrive on scene. Thanks for the video.

That valve in the intersection is a hundred years old it's never going to turn without busting it right off and then you've got two problems Go get a 12-in pipe with bolt flanges and a valve and attach it to the base

I installed BAYARD SAPHIR CHOC hydrants. They can be bumped with a car and no leak, they have breakable bolts and the tap don't get open.

Tough but gotta fight the water

Thank God for Probies

Hey mom you wanted to go somewhere with a waterfall right? *brings out to the street

Very nice