Burst pipe floods jury room with hot water, delays Fresno Court for hours

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A h2o leak prompted an exigency evacuation astatine the Fresno County Courthouse connected Monday, sending hundreds extracurricular arsenic alarms sounded passim the building.

A burst tube connected the 3rd level was down the chaos.

"It flooded the assemblage country and acceptable disconnected immoderate alarms here, truthful they had to evacuate the building," Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig said.

He revealed that a blistery h2o enactment to a valve broke.

One root described it arsenic a burst of boiling water, and said it was truthful blistery that the flooded country began to steam.

"In the vigor of the moment, erstwhile you person alarms going disconnected and immoderate h2o that's flooding from somewhere, you don't cognize what's happening," Magsig said.

The full incidental caused interest and confusion.

"She said, 'a tube broke,' and she's similar 'a tube bomb?' No, everybody settee down, it's not that serious," Mike O'Connor said. He was among the hundreds of radical waiting for cases.

For hours, firefighters stayed connected the country and utilized concern vacuums.

The tribunal re-opened astatine astir 1:30 PM aft astir the astir two-and-a-half hr closure.

"Initially, I was acrophobic that a main had breached and it was flooding antithetic floors, but the flooding was isolated chiefly to the 3rd floor," Magsig said.

"There are immoderate plumbing upgrades that request to beryllium done here," helium said. "There (are) much resources that request to beryllium going into Courthouse Park."

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