A police patrol car and a taxicab collided, subsequently hitting a fire hydrant and causing an intersection in San Francisco’s Bayview district to fill with water early Tuesday morning, police said.The two vehicles collided at McKinnon Avenue and Toland Street at about 2:25 a.m., San Francisco police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.
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A hit-and-run driver knocked over a fire hydrant in the South of Market area Tuesday, according to a witness at the scene. The accident happened on Third Street between Howard and Folsom streets around 9:30 a.m., according to Charlene Evans, a worker in the area who reported the watery aftermath to The SF Examiner. The resultant geyser was “like four stories high,” Evans said.
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A 2-inch valve on a water main broke Thursday morning in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood, creating a geyser of water that could be seen by commuters on a BART train traveling on nearby tracks, a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission spokeswoman said.The broken valve was reported around 7:45 a.m. near the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and Niagara Avenue, SFPUC spokeswoman Suzanne Gautier said.
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