{"id":2527,"date":"2013-04-03T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:34:19","slug":"man-swallowed-by-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2527","title":{"rendered":"Man swallowed by sinkhole"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 28, 2013. Florida.<\/span><\/strong> A local man is believed to be dead after being swallowed by a sinkhole Thursday night, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Bush, 36, was asleep in bed around 11 p.m. when the ground opened up beneath his home at 240 Faithway Dr., Seffner, and swallowed him. “It’s a movie scene behind there,” said County Sherriff Larry McKinnon. “That’s what it is.”<\/p>\n

Bush’s mother was asleep in another room when she heard a loud crunching sound. When she rushed to her son’s room, she saw that the entire floor had caved in and her son was gone.<\/p>\n

Bush’s younger brother, Jeremy, 34, said he could hear his brother screaming from inside the hole. He dove in, trying to find his brother as the hole continued caving in.<\/p>\n

Deputy Douglas Duvall arrived on the scene and was able to grab Jeremy Bush before he was engulfed as well.<\/p>\n

At a press conference, an emotional Jeremy Bush talked about his efforts to save his brother.<\/p>\n

“We heard a loud crash. I ran in there. I heard my brother screaming. And I ran in there and all I could see was this big hole, all I could see was the top of his bed. I didn’t see anything else. So I jumped in the hole and tried digging him out. And I couldn’t get him out. All I could hear was him screaming, hollering for me. I couldn’t do nothing.”<\/p>\n

Jeremy Bush said he didn’t think twice about risking his own life to help his brother. “I didn\u2019t care. I just wanted my brother,” he said.<\/p>\n

The family says the home has never had an issue with sinkholes. There were five people in the home at the time, including a 2-year-old child.<\/p>\n

A sinkhole<\/strong> is a natural depression or hole in the Earth’s surface caused by the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks<\/a> or suffusion<\/a> processes in sandstone<\/a>. Sinkholes may vary in size from 1 to 600 metres both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms. Sinkholes may be formed gradually or suddenly, and are found worldwide. (Associated Press)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 28, 2013. Florida. A local man is believed to be dead after being swallowed by a sinkhole Thursday night, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}