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Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS. : AT THE SCENE : Broken Main Causes Fissure

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Times staff writers Bill Billiter and Nancy Wride compiled the Week in Review stories

A gaping hole appeared in a 20-foot stretch of the 1100 block of Summit Drive in Laguna Beach last weekend.

It happened when water spewed from a broken eight-inch water main under the street. The roadway split, limiting access to the isolated Arch Beach Heights area of Laguna Beach.

No one was injured, but a police car almost sank to oblivion. The investigating officer had parked close to the initial fissure, and the widening split almost took the car, officials said Sunday.

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