Fire Alarm Shuts Down The Abbey Late Friday

Los Angeles County Fire shut down  late Friday night after a burst water pipe activated the fire alarm, sending hundreds of people out into the streets.

"A girl tried to hang from a fire sprinkler pipe,” a representative for the venue told Patch. “We shut down the venue immediately and had emergency repairs.”

deputies also responded to the scene at 692 North Robertson Blvd. where the crowd of hundreds was ushered out to the street around midnight.

“People did not know what they were supposed to do,” said Jake Dahm, a patron who was at The Abbey on Friday. “Everyone looked bewildered as they threw back their drinks – or carried them out with them – [and headed] out the door.”

The crowd dispersed either to other venues in the area or across the street to the alley in the valet lot to finish their drinks, where some attendees stated they were soaked when the water from the pipe showered down on them.

The Abbey re-opened for business as usual Saturday morning.

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