Water main bursts in front of Colorado home, "It does look like a volcano happened here"

A quiet street in Colorado filled with water Friday, after a 12-inch water main burst, blasting water more than 40 feet into the air.

Ronald Wright has lived on Easter Avenue in Centennial for 45 years, and said he's never seen anything like it. He had just dropped his son off at work when he stumbled upon the scene.

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"I came around that corner and it looked like Old Faithful in front of my house," Wright said. "It was about 45 feet in the air, and I didn't know what was going on. Of course, I couldn't get in my driveway."

He immediately called 911.

Even the utility crew was stunned by the scale of the geyser.

"The guy from the water department, he's been there 35 years. He's never seen anything this serious or this big," Wright said.

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