“Busted Plug,” the 40-foot fire hydrant statue that for years sat near the intersection of Taylor and Bull streets in ...

NORTH HILLS, CA - A pickup truck collided into a hydrant in North Hills Sunday, sending so much water two stories high that it partially collapsed the roof and two walls of a nearby T-Mobile store.

The roof and at least two walls partially collapsed at a T-Mobile store in North Hills on Sunday afternoon after a hit-and-run driver in a pickup truck toppled a fire hydrant and slammed into a ...

Fire Chief Richard Edwards said. He explained that an engine truck is the shorter apparatus that shows up at every fire, and is ready to hook up to a fire hydrant and start pumping water.

Police are investigating whether the driver suffered a medical emergency that may have caused him to lose consciousness before the crash.

A T-Mobile store in North Hills began to collapse after a truck veered off the road and sheared a nearby fire hydrant, causing water to gush onto the roof of the building on Sunday afternoon.

The L.A. City Fire Department said it received a call just before 3 p.m. for reports of a truck crashing into a hydrant on the corner of West Nordhoff Street and Sepulveda Boulevard. Officials did ...