Four homes in San Clemente were flooded Friday night, March 24, after a water main broke on a residential street, authorities said.
Orange County firefighters were called to the 600 block of Via Presa about 11:15 p.m. and found flooding, Capt. Thanh Nguyen said.
Firefighters called San Clemente Public Works to help shut off the water, Nguyen said. The amount of damage to the four houses was not known.
Residents were briefly evacuated, Nguyen said, but it wasn’t known if any were displaced.
Video from OnSceneTV showed standing water inside one home, while residents in others were seen pushing water either out of the front door or into the garage. The video also showed water appearing to come through the break in a yard and gushing toward the residential street.
Whether Public Works had fixed the water main or was still making repairs was not immediately known as of 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Source: Orange County Register
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