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Water Floods Franklin High School Auditorium

Cleanup of the flooding took about three hours.

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A broken water pipe caused several inches of water to flood 's auditorium on Saturday evening.

Los Angeles Fire Department crews responded to the flooding incident at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, according to Capt. Gene Bednarchik.

Bednarkchik said that the flooding was caused by a broken water pipe and that water levels were "several inches" high inside the auditorium.

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"The flooding was confined to the auditorium and took about three hours to clean up," Bednarchik said.

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