put the fire hydrant down the fire hydrant does not get broken just this. this is a break ah way collar so it doesn't damage the fire hydrant. this says 1995. this is a recent fire hydrant but we will see an older one down the street. >> watch out, pat, don't fall in that hole. what can we say about holes in the sidewalks, who's responsible for maintaining it. >> the fronting property owner. >> what are they supposed to do. >> infill it right now it's a tremendous tripping hazard. it looks like there was supposed to be a tree in there or there was a tree much >> another problem. because where's the tree. which is a different issue. >> do we inspect this or site them >> the department of public works sidewalk inspect ors and adopted a new sidewalk problem to get property owners to fix their sidewalks. if they don't fix it we fix it and bill them. >> that's the old way. >> we don't do that. similar, basic beeally the cityl have a sidewalk program, i don't know the hundred percent details because its less than a few months old. essentially, same type of notice

one other thing before we leave this we have seen 2 fire hydrants the new fire hydrant, an old fire hydrant and across the street, laurence. this is part of the high pressure water system develop indeed san francisco after the 1906 earthquake when the board of supervisors passed legislation to prevent the failure of the water system. this was the blue top is part of the separate system that's tied to reservoirs in the city and can be pumped directly out of the bay through this pump station. there is one by the ballpark where they pump live sea water into the system. >> let's go see when the date. >> well -- i don't think so. 1905. 1909. yeah. okay. >> the thing about this is this is under high pressure. if a fire truck hooks to this into a regular fire pump this water will flow through the fair truck and back to the regular fire hydrant hooked to the regular drinking water. there is an issue after a fire of flushing the water system. >> let's look at market street. this is an interesting sidewalk condition. >> this is a huge public works project to repave and redo all of market street years

speculation on why the hydrants are being stolen? scrap iron going for 12 cents per pound, thief koz net about $112 per stolen hydrant. >>> tan ashley and i will be back in half an hour for abc 7 news at 6:00. coming up then two men behind a price fixing conspiracy ordered to shell out half a billion dollars to make amendments. and san francisco dirty secret. tonight a new distimpx that could tarnish the city reputation as a major u.s. travel destination and foster children finding jobs one payoff of the abc 7 sleep train dream campaign coming up in half an hour. now back to dan and cheryl. >> and there is a rare florida sea turtle back in the ocean. >> yes. and the young turtle almost ended up on a dinner plate. >> take a look at lucky. he is lucky to be alive. he's 15 pounds ask ended up at the end of a fishing line. >> instead of releasing the sea turtle he apparently had other plans fortunately officials stepped in ask turned hip over to florida aquarium workers releasing him into the bay. lucky is fine. safe, and sound. >> good.

they have to have the correct tool then steal the hydrant. >>reporter: all were stolen in neighborhood where homes have yet to be built no. actual home on fire would have burned to the ground because the water supply was cut off. still, the hydrant were working and could have been used for a grass fire after replacement are fasten water released to make sure they work. scrap metal or in this case iron goes for 12 cents a pound. stolen hydrant might have brought the thief or thieves 12 dollars. in modest to, abc 7 news. >>> more to bring you tonight. best berth control for teechblingts up next. doctors come out with new guide lanes. >> plus sand toy on steroids. that's how our heather describes the work going on at ocean beach in san francisco. ocean beach in san francisco. running ahe >> teenager girls may prefer to use the pill or maybe the patch when it comes to birth control but leading gynecologist say the doctor should recommend iud or hormone implant. it's said that iud are long lasting and more effective than other mean means. >> welco

but when they pull their official vehicle up to another hydrant -- >> ooh, it's a fire hydrant. oh, my. >> a third violation? he's seen enough. >> she's in there writing a summons to someone else when she commits a violation with her own official city vehicle. what a shame. shame on you! it just shows the systematic abuse of authority. that's why i do what i do. that's why i make these videos, because i'm trying to change the system. >>> coming up -- >> get out of my face, man. >> danger ahead. a department of education employee tries to teach jimmy justice a lesson. >> stop. >> and playing with fire. >> you ought to be ashamed of yourself. while you're in the store, you don't hear the siren? what's the matter with you? >> when "caught on camera: video vigilantes" returns. with the spark miles card from capital one, thor's couture gets the most rewards of any small business credit card. your boa! [ garth ] thor's small business earns double miles on every purchase, every day! ahh, the new fabrics, put it on my spark card. [ garth ] why settle for less? the spiked heels are worki

egan: you have hydrants that were manufactured in the 1800s. you have underground pipes, you have underground valves. they get what they call tuberculin built up. you would compare it to a 100-year-old man that has heavy cholesterol. they could be 6- or 8-inch mains, but being 100 years old, they actually may be 2-inch mains. and they reduce the amount of volume of water that's available to us. johnson: there were a number of things that we have had to do in order to get the system back up to an acceptable standard. replacing mains and valves and fire hydrants and other components of the system to ensure that it operates properly. egan: we consider both the underground infrastructure and the above ground assets to be a part of the critical infrastructure of the city. johnson: and if the infrastructure is not there to actually deliver that water in the volume and the quality that's necessary, then communities simply can't exist. man: infrastructure is vital to the american economy. water, after all, is an essential ingredient in hundreds of thou

presently they are not the same as the rest of the fire hydrants in california. should we have a catastrophic fighter and visiting firefighters come to san francisco in order to help us putting out the fire they can't use the same fire hydrants in the effective manner that they should. - think this should be corrected almost immediately and i think one other public thing that would be useful would be the patrolling of bart police by foot. presently they have a habit of using lethal violence too quickly and i think if they got to know the customers better they would be less likely to do that. thank you. >> thank you sir. mr. scary. >> simply it's the budget. the budget is why, why. >> >> without of whack. 1996 it was 3.$5 billion, same people, more services. today is seven point three billion people and same people and less service. the government gives you more of what you don't want and less of what you do want, and we want more service. we have to pay for it. my suggestion is we look at the wasteful spending in government and i conservatively believe there is a

. >> andrew ran over a stop sign, hate hydrant and -- hit a hydrant and crashed into the neighbor's yard. his parents say they are hiding the keys out of his sight. >>> ever got a speed camera tickets? a lot of you are nodding. you probably have because they seem to show up in mailboxs all the time. so it's no surprise they bring in a lot of money but just how much do they bring in? what happens in vegas sometimes ends up on the news especially when it looks like mother nature is the one tearing things up in the city. we will look at what's going on there ahead. what does fall smell like? head north, to someplace pristine like acadia national park. there is nothing like the parks this time of year. the falling leaves, the crisp air, the perfect inspiration for air wick's fall collection. yeah, when i smell all those things, i know fall is in the air. the fall collection brought to you by air wick and the national park foundation. something in the air wick. >>> all right. heavy thunderstorms turned las vegas streets into rivers. this is tuesday. this is what it looked like in the middle o

fire department there was a situation up on polk street where a delivery truck backed into a fire hydrant and created water damage to a couple of businesses. and they have been responsive in turning over the incident reports so that the businesses can immediately fire for insurance so this is, i want to really commend them for that so it really minimizes the number of days that the businesses, you know, dealing with the process and working to get their insurance coverage and the money that they need to make the repairs. next i would like to move on to sunday streets and i talked about the mission sunday streets last on months in in regards to doing joint inspections, there is a interest in the sunday streets with an organization to increase the number of weekends in the mission. but there are concerns with the merchants with the number of times that the street is being closed so that it is now, you know, if it is once, or twice, during the year and then there is a economic boone, but for businesses there were businesses with the fourth sunday street or the ones with the sunday street that

now they're stealing fire hydrants. the modesto bee says that thieves are turning off the water, removing the bolts, and hauling away the cast-iron fire hydrants, each with 100 lbs. and can bring 12¢ per pound as scrap. modesto city workers have began replacing those hydrants at a cost of $4,000. that is if there's no damage to the pipes below ground. >> sandra fell police arrest a wanted fugitive after he fell from a roof. they traced into a hotel on lincoln avenue last night. a police chase ensued and the suspect drove to prospect drive and then got out of his car and ran for backyards. police say that he climbed onto the roof and fell out when he tried to run across it. police say that they found a lot of stolen items in his car including weapons and identification cards. there arrested him after the hospital released him. >> in northern california man busy sprucing up a boat that he bought here in the bay area, is about to set sail for the voyage of a lifetime. and maria medina explains that he does not have a momen

he got -- hydrant. he was standing here.o to some video that we took are the night, just after about 9:30, deputies were called to this bartlett avenue. they found the 20-year-old suffering from one gunshot wound to the chest. investigators say this appears to be a drive-by. witnesses say a group of people were standing outside when a car pulled up and someone inside fired two shots. the car sped off and at this point, the person or persons responsible had not been caught. we were told by the woman who lives in the apartment number 3 that the victim is not part of a gang. we are still waiting to talk to a media spokesperson from the sheriff's department and we're hoping to get more information. you will hear more from somebody who knew the victim coming up at 8:30. reporting live from hayward, back to you. >> thank you. >>> 7:31. a san jose family's labor day vacation came to an abrupt end. they were injured in a jet ski accident. they say a mom and dad were on jet skis they wented, each with a young child behind them. the m

white on the fire hydrants. fire box red for the fire boxes. our brown for the pg and e poles. >> we are not painters we do our best. >> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the p

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person that posted this video said firefighters hadn't properly hooked up the hoses to the fire hydrantsater wasn't coming through from some of the fire hoses. and they were yelling water, in order to let everyone around know that water wasn't coming through. but, this woman says these guys are heros. they did get the hoses working, nine fire trucks in total came to the site of this fire. they did get this house fire under control and it did not damage her brother's house. >> great work these men do. >>> it's top five time on the countdown. the best of the best and at number five one of our big favorites of the day. >> i knew sea otters were pretty cool but i didn't know they were brilliant. this is nelly. she's an otter at the zoo and aquarium in tacoma, washington. she is playing with a shape puzzle that has squares and a circle. she gets the circle quickly and they give her some sort of bolt and nut combination. throws it in there. finally she starts playing with the square. she struggles with that a little bit. >> i always like how otters use their bellies as like their work bench or

police say that andrew ran over a stop sign, hit a hydrant and crashed into a neighbor's yard. >> wheni was trying to come up -- come into the street, i got scared because i jumped the curb and i am like. >> i don't think he fully understood the ramifications or serious any of taking a car for a ride. >> probably not his age he wanted to drive. his parents are moving the car keys out of sight and police will not file charges against the young driver and you hear a story like that and think thank goodness no one was hurt. >>> you can find interesting things for sale at a auction even human remains. a pennsylvania auction house had two skeletons up for bid a man and woman at least 100 and come from a mortician's collection in new york city. probably used for teaching. >> what in the world do people want with these things? >> i have no idea but there isn't a week that coast by that someone doesn't want to buy them. >> you can sell the plastic ones. they sold for $900. the female sold for 950 dollars. who knows what somebody will dowith them. maybe they are used for teaching instead of sit

police code to exempt dogs on a leash from the prohibition against fastening an animal to a lamppost, hydrant, or growing tree. supervisor farrell: thank you. we have the sponsor of both items number one and number two, who is sitting on the committee today, supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. today we have two pieces of legislation before us. the first repeals a number of very antiquated provisions from the police code, including most of them from the 1930's, setting the rates for carrying luggage from different parts of the town to other parts of town usually 50 cents or $1. repealing the requirement of a travel agent who sells an airline ticket posting security bond with the city. that was obviously done in the days when we did not have our current way of buying airline tickets. a section making it a misdemeanor for a moving company to notify a property owner before moving -- before moving items for a tenant but also repeal the code section that makes it a misdemeanor for dip -- for business that serves food to and by someone other than the business owners to sell fo

police say a wrong way driver ran a red light and crashed into a fire hydrant.ened around 2:30 this morning in 12th street and castro. several people were hurt but they're expected to be ok. crews twhr on scene to turn off the water. >>> police in san francisco are trying to figure out what led to a crash that killed a man on a motorcycle around 9:40 last night right near a police station. officers heard the accident and responded. the man died at the scene. >>> foggy conditions may have been a factor in a crash in sonoma county this morning. just before 5:30 the c.h.p. received a report that a vehicle hit a power poll near doyle road. pg&e was called out to deal with the power lines and nobody was hurt. >>> bay area police will be out in force this weekend looking for drivers who are under the influence. officers say as many as 1000 drivers may have been stopped last night at a d.u.i. checkpoint in richmond. police say one driver, even had an open beer between his legs when he came through that checkpoint, and that driver wasn't even 21. >> so the legal limit t

street, i got scared because i jumped the curb and i am like -- >> he ran over a stop sign, he hit a hydrantand crashed into his neighbor's yard. with all of that, luckily he was to the hurt. >>> this is pretty scary. can you imagine someone living in your house and you don't know it. you might wonder how that's possible. that's what happened to one woman. she had to put her children to bed and heard something coming from the attic above her room. and thinking it was an animal she called her older sons and nephew to check it out. >> and that's when they found him the guy sleeping in my heating unit. he had packed coats and stuff in the heating unit. >> the map actually ran down the stairs out of the house while she was calling police. the unwelcomed attic residents had been to the house before and helped to remodel it. police doesn't know how long he had been living there but -- don't know how long he had been living there but don't suspect it was long he than two weeks because he was in jail for other related crimes prior to being in her attic. >>> you still have to dig deep when you pull u

was not only traveling in the opposite direction but ran a red light and crashed right into a fire hydrantoakland. it happened in the area of 12th street and castro. several people were hurt but we're told they're all going to be okay. >>> a critical phase in the dumbarton bridge moving the project into the final stretch. >> it's the third night in a row of nonstop action up here. under the lights they're about to put steel plates in position. sort of a hinge across the bridge so it flexes when the earth moves. >> we got through one of the most sensitive operations. >> reporter: laying the support structure went fast. twice as fast as when caltrans did this on the other bridge during memorial day. >> this is the last operation for the support system then we go into the final product. >> reporter: final product, a bridge that will rock & roll but remain standing. >> it's designed for a thousand year earthquake. it's designed to handle the largest earthquake we expect over the next thousand years. >> reporter: work comes along too, no traffic a time to install new crash cushions at the appro

. >>> the city of modesto is dealing with a theft problem, crews were replacing five stolen fire hydrants. there has been a rise in left theftsf dea -- rise in thefts. they are leaving neighborhoods vulnerable to fire -- vulnerable to fire. >> i have never seen this happen to us. but i guess because of the economy, people are trying trying to take metal. >> taking them isn't easy. they have to turn off the water, unbolt it from the base and carry it away and they each weigh about 100 pounds. officials are urging people watch out for suspicious activity and call 911 if you see anyone camperring with one. >>> fran -- tampering with one. >>> arrested for child pornography. prosecutors gathered evidence since his initial arrest in june. he turned himself in this morning and will be charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. >>> the late summer rush is on at yosemite national park. the new precautions to try to contain the spread of hantavirus and why visitors say the trip is still worth the risk. >> and this bride asks us for help when someone stole all of her wedding phot