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| Florida man disappears into sinkhole that opened under his bedroom | |
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| A Florida man screamed for help and disappeared as a large sinkhole opened up under the bedroom of a house, his brother said on Friday. | A Florida man screamed for help and disappeared as a large sinkhole opened up under the bedroom of a house, his brother said on Friday. |
| The brother told rescue crews he heard a loud crash near midnight on Thursday, then heard his brother screaming. | The brother told rescue crews he heard a loud crash near midnight on Thursday, then heard his brother screaming. |
| "When he got there, there was no bedroom left," the Hillsborough county fire rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said. "There was no furniture. All he saw was a piece of the mattress sticking up." | "When he got there, there was no bedroom left," the Hillsborough county fire rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said. "There was no furniture. All he saw was a piece of the mattress sticking up." |
| The brother called police and frantically tried to help. An arriving deputy had to pull him from the still-collapsing house. | The brother called police and frantically tried to help. An arriving deputy had to pull him from the still-collapsing house. |
| There has been no contact with the man who disappeared since then, and neighbours on both sides of the home have been evacuated. | There has been no contact with the man who disappeared since then, and neighbours on both sides of the home have been evacuated. |
| "We put engineering equipment into the sinkhole and didn't see anything compatible with life," Damico said. But she would not say that the man was presumed dead. | "We put engineering equipment into the sinkhole and didn't see anything compatible with life," Damico said. But she would not say that the man was presumed dead. |
| Damico estimated that the sinkhole was about nine metres (30ft) across. "The entire house is on the sinkhole," she said. | |
| Janell Wheeler told the Tampa Bay Times she was inside the house with four other adults and a child when the sinkhole opened. "It sounded like a car hit my house," she said. |