Water Main Break Floods Koreatown Apartment Building Parking Garage

Residents of a Koreatown apartment building woke up early Thursday to find their parking garage was flooded after a water main broke.

The call of a flooded building came in at around 2 a.m. in the 500 block of South Serrano Avenue, authorities said.

One resident said a neighbor frantically woke her up to tell her to move her car. Most residents were able to drive their cars out of the flooded garage.

It took crews nearly an hour to shut the water off. Initially, authorities had to turn off the water main for the entire block in order to stop the flooding and start the clean up.

The water, which was knee-deep at one point, flooded most of the garage and crept into one bathroom and the basement.

Fire crews spent Thursday morning pumping out thousands of gallons of water.

The owner of the apartment building said they still do not know which pipe burst.