Water Main Break Floods Melrose Shops

Los Angeles (myFOXla.com) - Water service was restored to 15 DWP customers along Melrose Avenue near Fairfax High School, hours after an 8-inch water main broke and caused some shops to flood, a utility spokeswoman said.

The rupture under Melrose Avenue at Ogden Drive occurred about 2:40 a.m., and service to the affected customers was restored about noon, said Kim Hughes of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

The pavement buckled in two places along the 7800 block of Melrose, and firefighters blocked off Melrose Avenue from Fairfax Avenue east two blocks to Ogden Drive, according to a video news crew at the scene, which reported water flowing into some stores.

Fire Capt. Bob Aragon told RMG News the water was about a foot deep in places.

Hughes said DWP had no reports of property damage.

Meantime, flooding was reported in the 1200 block of Beachwood Drive, near Fountain Avenue, about 7:30 a.m., but a DWP crew determined that the break was in a residential pipe not owned by the utility.