Fire hydrant thieves hit Pomona

Police are asking for help searching for two people suspected of stealing a fire hydrant in Pomona on Sunday morning. KTLA’s Sandra Mitchell speaks with the owner of a nearby business who shared security footage of the theft.

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[Just_Johnnie]

Why not passes laws to punish recycling places for accepting fire hydrants?

[CareyHolzman]

Well, its not like California is using them...

[greggreg]

What kind of recycler is buying stolen hydrants that’s alarming🚨

[destructo]

When you don't prosecute petty theft, you get more theft of all kinds.

[pteddie]

I have lived in Pomona since 1970. I am 77 tears old. I have raised three children here.
This story sounds like the Pomona P.D.
Several months ago, I had my handicapped van stolen from my driveway.
A neighbor gave me and the Pomona PD pictures of the homeless men who stole my van. I recognized these men from seeing them outside of the 7-11 near my house. Months later, I located my van at the bottom of a hill where the homeless camp. The police were of no help to me at all. I have no respect for them.

[bmuns]

DUH - make it a felony to steal it and make it a felony for scrap companies to receive it and lose their business permit to operate.

[zcom]

California should pass a law that if you're caught stealing fire hydrants mandatory 5 years in prison with no early out.

[todd]

What is the point of hiding the license plate of the thieves?

[jeffreymagyar]

Scrap yards need to be fined for buying them

[rickagulia]

Should be mandatory prison for scrap dealers !!

[StarzzyJJASD]

Guaranteed if someone called the police and said there’s an armed man with a gun the whole department would have been out there in minutes

[proraptor]

Stealing fire hydrants? What a bunch of total losers...

[albertorozco]

Police not responding is also a problem.

[foxwood]

How many levels of failure in one video.

[robertphillips]

Scrap Metal Dealers should report them when they try to sell them!

[boblandwehr]

60 stolen fire hydrants in the last four months...and at 6:00 am on a Sunday morning it takes 30 minutes for an officer to respond for an in progress crime that jeopardizes fire safety? Pomona residents deserve better.

[techmouse.]

It takes a whole episode of Seinfeld to rob that hydrant.

[ericlumuy]

They been doing that for decades and nobody been arrested and put to jail. That's what's Californian is getting.

[surfxx]

Desperate people resorting to stealing fire hydrants and scrap yards are buying them. What will be next?

[er]

This poor guy, puts himself in jeopardy of retaliation and nothing is done by PPD. Pomona is a dangerous place.