Evening traffic passes as Vince Magallahor holds a tarp to block his body from the flying sparks created by coworker Fred Crawford as the two repair a water pipe in the intersection of Santa Monica and Westhilm Blvd., in Los Angeles, Calif., Saturday evening, Nov. 10, 2007. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California employees Magallahor and Crawford work during dangerous rush hour traffic. (Photo by Rachelle Hacmac/Brooks Institute, ©2007)

Evening traffic passes as Vince Magallahor holds a tarp to block his body from the flying sparks created by coworker Fred Crawford as the two repair a water pipe in the intersection of Santa Monica and Westhilm Blvd., in Los Angeles, Calif., Saturday evening, Nov. 10, 2007. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California employees Magallahor and Crawford work during dangerous rush hour traffic. (Photo by Rachelle Hacmac/Brooks Institute, ©2007)