Several lanes of traffic were blocked on Whites Canyon Road after a broken hydrant caused gallons of water to shoot into the air Saturday night, officials said. Reports were received around 8:38 p.m. of a sheared hydrant on Whites Canyon Road near Soledad Canyon Road, according to Supervisor McBride from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. “The damage was behind ...

A Newhall crash involving a fire hydrant Tuesday evening resulted in water bursting from the broken hydrant for over 30 minutes, officials said. Around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters received reports of a traffic collision involving a fire hydrant near Tournament and Wiley Canyon Roads in Newhall, said Melanie Flores, a dispatch supervisor for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. “It ...