A man is dead after a cesspool collapsed in the Long Island town of Huntington on May 24, 2017, spawning a gigantic sinkhole that swallowed him alive.
Crews were still filling in the massive sinkhole on Wednesday night after a frantic rescue effort involving dozens of firefighters, police officers and workers failed to save the man.
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Emergency services were frantically searching for a man who was swallowed by a sinkhole on Long Island Wednesday.
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Police say a crew was installing the cesspool at a Beech Place home when it collapsed shortly before 1 p.m., leaving a gaping hole that consumed the entire front yard and ate the top half of the driveway.
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The worker was sucked in. Another worker nearly suffered the same fate but managed to grab ahold of construction equipment as Sinnott was pulled down.
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Chopper 4 showed an extensive emergency presence at the scene. A large crane was sifting through mud and other debris. Later, crews brought in a device to suck muck out of the hole.
First responders planted a large American flag at the site as they worked, and anxious family members, co-workers and neighbors watched as mounds of dirt were scooped from the hole.
Hours after the collapse, the worker still hadn’t been found, and sources said a rescue effort for him had changed to a recovery effort for his body. He was pulled from the dirt shortly before 7 p.m. and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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