Residents in Bed-Stuy spent Monday cleaning up, after a fire hydrant flooded several streets.<\/p>\n
The DEP said the hydrant started leaking shortly after 8 a.m. near Lewis and DeKalb avenues.<\/p>\n
Maria Guterriez had to use cinderblocks to step out of her car and onto the curb, as the steady stream of water ran down her street.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is really, really horrible,\u201d said Guterriez. \u201cNothing has stopped. The water\u2019s still flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n
For nearly seven hours, discolored water rushed through at least three blocks, which made it difficult for people to access cars and sidewalks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw people trying to cross over, so I put [a wooden] pallet over there,\u201d said Guterriez. \u201cAnd they were able to get over to that side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guterriez said, luckily, water did not get inside her home, but a few doors down, Frankie Rivera couldn\u2019t say the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy basement is already bad,\u201d said Rivera. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
He told News 12 that he is the porter for four buildings, as he tried to clear water and garbage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe garbage is floating all over the place,\u201d said Rivera.<\/p>\n
The DEP said it is assessing the damage.<\/p>\n
As of Monday night, it was unknown exactly how many homes and businesses were impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Bed-Stuy spent Monday cleaning up, after a fire hydrant flooded several streets. The DEP said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4987,98,100,99,4663,4246,14236,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-128199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bedford-stuyvesant","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-department-of-environmental-protection","13":"tag-fire-hydrant","14":"tag-flooding","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}