Man Turns On Fire Hose, Floods 8-Floor Apartment Building: Police

SAN DIEGO, CA – A man was arrested Monday morning after allegedly turning on a fire hose and flooding all eight floors of a Little Italy apartment complex, police said.

Dispatchers received a call shortly before 12:25 a.m. from a person at an apartment complex in the 1800 block of State Street reporting that a man had turned on a fire hose on the eighth floor and was spraying water, according to San Diego police.

The man had also opened water standpipes on all of the floors, 10News reported.

Officers responded to the scene and found that all eight floors of the apartment building had been flooded, Officer Dino Delimitros said.

Police evacuated residents from the building, although the number of units affected and the number of residents displaced were not immediately available.

Around 200 people live in the 100-unit apartment complex, San Diego Fire-Rescue spokesman Alec Phillipp said.

San Diego Gas & Electric crews were called in to shut off power to the building as crews dealt with the water, Delimitros said.

Officers found the suspect nearby and arrested the man, whose name was not immediately available, on suspicion of felony vandalism, Sgt. Thomas Sullivan said.

A building inspector was called to the scene to evaluate the damage.

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--City News Service