# @detroitnews on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGN_P0_txiE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/79372844-detroitnews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-02-18T15:05:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Detroit News (@detroitnews) — https://gondola.cc/detroitnews

## Caption

Detroit officials are vowing to cover all uninsured repairs to homes in a southwest Detroit neighborhood after a massive water main broke early Monday and caused such severe flooding that residents had to be rescued by boats, on the shoulders of firefighters and, in one instance, the scoop on a front-end loader.

Residents in the area of Beard and Rowan streets were startled when they heard a loud bang at about 2 a.m. Monday. It was the sound of a 54-inch steel water transmission main rupturing in the subfreezing temperatures.

By 4 a.m., the city recognized it was a huge water transmission line owned by the Great Lakes Water Authority that had been buried underground in the 1930s. By 7:30 a.m., workers found the leak and began shutting off valves. An hour later the water began to recede, but the damage was done.

More at the link in bio.

Photos by Andy Morrison, The Detroit News and David Guralnick, The Detroit News. 

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