Sheriff’s Department investigating theft of nearly 100 fire hydrants in LA County
OS ANGELES — Authorities are investigating the theft of nearly 100 fire hydrants in Los Angeles County this year, sheriff’s officials said Monday.
Some 85 hydrants have been stolen in unincorporated areas of the county, and another 14 in Lynwood, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
A series of fire hydrant thefts in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood of South Los Angeles has left residents without a working hydrant near their homes.
The thefts of four hydrants near the intersection of 82nd Street and Hooper Avenue mean the block doesn’t have even one operating hydrant, KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw reports.
“It’s beyond annoying,” area resident Krystail Cousins said. “Why would you steal a fire hydrant? What are you going to do with a fire hydrant? … Now you have a whole neighborhood of houses that are in danger because we have no access for our fire department.”
Similar thefts have occurred in Lynwood, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Work is underway to replace the hydrants and install locks to prevent future thefts.
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| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 17, 2024 11:41 AM
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Whoa. Metal scrap theives got bolder. Bound to happen. Also an inevitable death when someone gets his head blown off by an incredibly powerful geyser coming from a source. Except I suspect the theft gang is an insider job with lowly city workers and maybe some engineers directing and lowering water pressure to affected areas.
I hope I'm wrong.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 5, 2024 5:32 PM
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I live in LA and this is the first I have heard of this issue. The noted areas are in bad neighborhoods.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 5, 2024 5:44 PM
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They just took down stoplights and replaced them with stop lights because of copper thieves and homeless tying into the electrical
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 5, 2024 5:59 PM
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California is a shithole.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 5, 2024 5:59 PM
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I read just the other day how empty their prisons are. Maybe fill them up a bit with these miscreants?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 5, 2024 6:03 PM
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[quote]“It’s beyond annoying,” area resident Krystail Cousins said.
"Krystail" ??
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 5, 2024 6:08 PM
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R4 what exactly did you mean to write?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 5, 2024 6:26 PM
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r10 They replaced stoplights with stop signs, would be my guess.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 5, 2024 6:27 PM
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R11 I'm illiterate? Oh, honey.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 5, 2024 7:01 PM
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Failure to proofread is a separate issue
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 5, 2024 7:14 PM
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It makes way more sense to replace the stop lights with stoplights.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 5, 2024 7:23 PM
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r15 You still don't seem to understand that that poster was simply confused because r4 wrote "replaced stoplights with stop LIGHTS" instead of "replaced stoplights with stop SIGNS". I admit I had to read it a couple of times myself before I got that it was a mistake.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 5, 2024 7:28 PM
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Is there a buttplug shortage in that neighborhood?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 5, 2024 9:59 PM
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There are fewer people in prison than there were a decade ago but there are still a fuckload of people locked up in California, r6. I don't think throwing desperate junkies in PRISON is going to solve the problem of scrap metal thievery. Also, think about cost of a fire hydrant vs the cost of keeping someone in prison.
People stealing metal and taking it to a scrapyard happens everywhere, r5. Very original thought, though. I've never heard anyone badmouth California.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 5, 2024 10:11 PM
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Seven miles worth of stolen copper from tge 6th St bridge, leaving it dark.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 17, 2024 2:51 AM
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A rabid pack of poodles have been rampaging south central LA, that's the first place I'd look...dogs and fire hydrants, it's a no-brainer.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 17, 2024 2:54 AM
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How the hell does anyone steal a fire hydrant undetected? Those things are heavy and bulky.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 17, 2024 4:01 AM
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I remember about twenty years ago, there were thieves stealing all the manhole covers in my city because they were there since the first half of the 1900s and made of copper. Everyone had to pay attention when they were driving or walking on sidewalks otherwise they'd kill their car or themselves. It was horrible. Turned out it was city workers doing the job.
Then there was an issue about 10 years ago when thieves were cutting copper wiring off of telephone poles from the old telephone lines - yanked them right off. They were never found.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 17, 2024 4:20 AM
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That's nucking futs. SMH.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 17, 2024 6:19 AM
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How absolutely weird that abject theives cannot be white.
I think this may be a new attempt, trying to interject that obvious WHITE thieves with extensive history to be "nicer" than "Detroit Blacks" Well, duf.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 17, 2024 6:41 AM
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Where do these idiots take scrap metal that is obviously stolen?
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 17, 2024 7:01 AM
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[quote] I don't think throwing desperate junkies in PRISON is going to solve the problem of scrap metal thievery
Prison isn't necessarily the answer
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 17, 2024 11:41 AM
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