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Water main break floods Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh

Jacob Tierney
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A water main break sent water rushing out from under a sidewalk, flooding Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.
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WPXI
A water main break sent water rushing out from under a sidewalk, flooding Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.

A broken water main break turned Penn Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh into a river early Wednesday morning, reported Tribune-Review news partner WPXI .

The water has been turned off, but the burst pipe ripped up the sidewalk and scattered debris on the road near the Gateway T Station. The road is open.

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