Residents of a quiet neighborhood woke up to a strange sight Sunday morning after the back end of a Denver Fire Department truck was swallowed up by a sinkhole.
It happened just after 6 a.m. at the corner of Zuni and Louisiana when a fire crew was headed to the scene of a reported water main break.
Between the 12-inch water main break and the sunken truck, nearby residents found themselves scrambling to make sense of the scene.
“I woke up – my daughter screaming up the stairs that her bedroom was flooding. And I ran downstairs thinking it was just sewer line, but water was spraying up from my floor drain,” said Frank Flores, who said he didn't even see the sunken fire truck until he looked out his front window. “It was exciting, pretty quiet neighborhood.”