Water main break floods apartment floor in Delmar, Delmar MD
Other Non-Crime EventFirefighters responded to a burst main water line behind a wall at an apartment building in Delmar. The leak flooded the floor, and maintenance could not shut off the water from inside. The fire department requested the town to shut off the main water supply and called a rescue truck to help remove the water.
Audio|Source: Wicomico County Fire and EMS
01:40
Transcript:
00:00
Commandant Central, just make a new. Maintenance is on location. Copy. Maintenance on location, 17308. Command Central. Command Central. Go ahead on. You can try and get a hold of the town of Delmar. We're going to need somebody to come out here and shut off the water main to building 875.
00:28
They do have an active leak. We're not able to get it shot off from inside the apartment. Happy. 3417 to, I mean, fire around two. Go ahead, 17. Switch up, Delmar. Go ahead. Jeremy up here. Yeah, I'm on Delmore.
00:57
Hey, you need the rescue truck out there. If you want to bring it, that way we can get some of this water up out of the floor, it's not too much. The biggest thing is, is the main line coming into the apartment complex is bustle right behind the wall, so we're not able to get it shut off unless we shut it off from the main. All right, I'll bring it out there. If you can find where the main is located, there might be a ranch on the rescue truck to turn it off.
01:26
Copy. This is on scene. I think he just left to go and try to find something. We've also got Central trying to get a hold of town.
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Delmar, MD 21875
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