A DeKalb County woman is fighting to get help paying for a broken pipe on her property. It happened after she says fire crews were testing hydrants in her neighborhood.
“The chief I talked to, he was very apologetic, but that was it. Sorry does not pay the bill,” said Saundra Windom in the days and months after water began flowing from a broken pipe in her yard, which she says was caused by fire crews checking hydrants in her neighborhood.
“It was a big flow of water,” said Windom. “They were testing the hydrants in our area. They do it annually. And that one, for some reason, caused my pipes to burst across the street from the hydrant. They were telling me what happens if this happens when they shut the valve off too fast and it causes a pipe to burst. And it so happens it was my pipe.”…