A 36-year-old Florida man went missing from his home after a large sinkhole sunk his bedroom on Thursday night, reported The Los Angeles Times.
His brother, Jeremy Bush, heard a crash and frantically called 911 for help, he told officers he heard the screams from his brother.
"I heard a loud crash, like a car coming through the house," said Bush, in an interview with CNN affiliate WFTS. "I heard my brother screaming and I ran back there and tried going inside his room, but my old lady turned the light on and all I seen was this big hole, a real big hole, and all I saw was his mattress."
Officers have not recovered the man and they couldn't get in contact with him since the collapse. They have already evacuated the neighboring homes on both sides of the house for fear of another cave in, reported The Times. The sinkhole is estimated at 20 feet to 30 feet across and 30 feet deep according to engineers inspecting the property, reported CNN.
"When he got there, there was no bedroom left," Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said in an interview with The Times.
Bush and four others evacuated the house safely. One of the residents included a 2-year-old. The story was built in the 1970s and it's located in Brandon, which is a suburb of Tampa.
The fire department fear the man is dead after they lowered a monitoring device to the sinkhole and found no sign of him. The vicinity remains too dangerous for the rescuers to return for another attempt to recover the man. The sinkhole could spread and collapse the other houses, reported CNN.
Nearly 40 police and fire rescuers arrived at the scene on Friday morning. They're expecting to get a three-dimensional reading device to get an accurate description of the sinkhole. According to Florida Department of Environmental Protection, sinkholes are frequent because limestone and other rocks are broken down by the acidic groundwater, which create poor groundwork for buildings, reported CNN.
