Opinion by

Philadelphia Electric Company and Alexander Giamalis (PECO) appeal a Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court order sustaining preliminary objections of the City of Philadelphia (City), in the nature of a demurrer, and dismissing the third-party complaint of PECO and Giamalis. We reverse and remand.

Rice, a seventeen year old, sustained injuries when he was struck by a PECO vehicle driven by its employee, Giamalis. Rice had been playing in the spray of a City-owned fire hydrant directed toward a public street. The hydrant was opened without proper authorization.

In ruling upon preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer, all well-pleaded facts and any inferences deducible therefrom must be accepted as true. Bahian v. Department of Public Welfare, 89 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 644, 493 A.2d 803 (1985).

PECO and Giamalis contend that their complaint states a cause of action against the City because (1) it states a cause of action recoverable by common law and (2) comes within the utility service facilities exception to governmental immunity.1 We agree.

*215The complaints averments state a cause of action at common law since they could sustain a jury finding that the dangerous condition of the hydrant and street created a reasonably foreseeable risk of injury of the type that Rice suffered.

Our review of this complaint reveals that it also states a claim within the utility services exception to governmental immunity.2 We have recently held that this exception applies to “injuries or damages directly resulting from the negligent maintenance of the physical facilities and equipment within the municipality’s control. . . .” Gall v. Allegheny County Health Department, 98 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 175, 181, 510 A.2d 926, 929 (1986). The complaint avers that the City negligently failed to properly maintain the hydrant and that the City was on notice that the fire hydrant had been opened on prior occasions without prior authorization. Since these averments must be accepted as true, the complaint states a cause of action within the utility service facility exception to governmental immunity.

*216Therefore, we reverse the common pleas court order sustaining the City’s preliminary objections. The case is remanded for further proceedings.

Order

The Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court order, No. 5960 dated November 20,' 1984, is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings.

Jurisdiction relinquished.

Dissenting Opinion by

In Medicus v. Upper Merion Township, 82 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 303 and City of Washington v. Johns, 81 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 601, 474 A.2d 1199 (1984), it was held that a municipality could be held liable for property damages due to surface water flooding attributable to a municipality’s alleged failure to maintain drainage systems intended to dispose of storm waters. In the instant case, however, no facts have been pled and no reasonable inferences demonstrate the nature of the purportedly “dangerous” condition or of any proximate nexus between the minor plaintiff, injured when struck by a truck, and the City’s alleged failure to properly maintain the fire hydrant.

The complaint here concerned indicates that the only hazard lay with the susceptibility of the hydrant to being opened by unauthorized parties. I am hard-pressed to discern what dangerous condition was created by the failure to maintain the hydrant to prevent such tampering, and I do not believe that it was unsafe merely because it, like all other hydrants, could be so opened. Moreover, Gall v. Allegheny Health Department, 98 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 175, 510 A.2d 926 (1986), cited by the majority, states that the injuries or damage must directly result from the alleged negligent maintenance, yet here no such proximate relationship *217exists between the allegedly dangerous condition and the ensuing harm. The injured plaintiff was not harmed by water erupting from a poorly maintained pipe, nor was property damaged by such water. As the majority notes, the plaintiff was struck by a truck while playing in the street in the spray of a hydrant opened without authorization. There is a total failure, however, of factual allegations to connect the injury with the alleged negligent maintenance. At worst, this matter suggests the existence of an attractive nuisance. That doctrine, however, would not avail any benefit to the seventeen year old plaintiff, who is assuredly aware of the hazards of playing in the street.

Because I do not believe that the plaintiff alleged facts demonstrating any hazardous condition and because the purportedly dangerous condition here was not the proximate cause of the injuries sustained, I would affirm the order of the trial court dismissing the complaint against the City.