Water main breaks put pressure on DWP

Renewing questions about the city's aging water-delivery system, another major pipeline broke early Tuesday in Valley Village, creating a sinkhole that nearly swallowed a 44,000-pound fire engine.Susan Abram in the Daily News.

The break came as city crews were still scrambling to repair the damage from an unrelated rupture Saturday night that flooded neighborhoods in Studio City.

The gusher in Valley Village opened up a 12-foot deep sinkhole that enveloped the front half of a city fire engine. A fire captain, engineer and two firefighters escaped the accident shaken, but unharmed. They had been responding to a 5:20 a.m. 911 call that water was rushing over street curb