It Could Happen To Anyone,

but having been to more than a few fire stations in the UK I am glad it was not me! if there is one thing I know about UK fire crews from 20 or 30 years ago, it is if you drop the ball your life with your colleagues will change for ever more, I must admit I am not sure about US fire crews, bit luckily the driver and crew got out of this slowly filling fire truck with out injury, the captain and engineer had received an emergency call at about 5.20am and saw running water on the street in the Valley Village neighbourhood of San Fernando Valley, fire department spokesman Rich Matheney said, worried the ground was unstable, the men were backing the 22-ton engine out when its front end fell into the sink-hole, Department of Water and Power spokeswoman Kim Hughes said water in the area was turned off while tow trucks prepared to pull the engine out of the hole, last weekend another pipe breakage two miles away from this one swept cars down streets, forced people out of their homes and flooded a section of a major road, the broken main was part of the city's original water system, dating to 1914, and was scheduled for repair, well considering the pipe had lasted nearly 100 years the engineers of the day did a pretty good job!