A water main break is causing some major problems at a Salvation Army in Oceanside, flooding multiple rooms, canceling a Halloween event and collapsing a walkway.
Officers discovered the water line had broken at 10 a.m. in The Salvation Army at 3935 Lake Boulevard, according to Director of Communcations Suzi Woodruff Lacey.
Water has poured into many rooms, front lawns and the entrance, forcing the concrete along the entrance walkway to buckle.
Because the main is connected to the emergency fire sprinklers, Salvation Army officers have been ordered by firefighters to carry out a fire watch every hour as crews jackhammer their way to the broken line. The water has been shut off.
The organization estimates it will cost more than $30,000 for the excavation alone to repair the break. The full cost is not yet known.
The huge flooding has forced the Salvation Army to cancel their Fall Festival planned for Friday.
“We are deeply concerned,” says Salvation Army administrator and pastor Lt. Dave Preston. “We ask for your prayers and, of course, we ask you to help us get the word out that our festival is cancelled.”
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Woodruff is directing those who planned to go to the festival to the free trick-or-treating at the Westfield Plaza Camino Real instead.
