A sinkhole that opened earlier this month in a north Florida neighborhood expanded on Thursday, leading officials to urge residents from six nearby homes to evacuate. Johnnie Candiano, 22, his brother Beau Candiano, 20, and cousin Mason Morton had been …
Authorities say 13 people were evacuated after a possible sinkhole opened outside a condominium complex in central Florida. An advisory from Alert Seminole County says 16 units at Royal Arms Condominiums were affected by the sinkhole that opened last Tuesday …
Parts of busy Interstate 75 was shut down in Florida after a sinkhole opened up. The southbound lanes were shut down just in time for rush hour traffic Friday. The Ocala Star-Banner reports the sinkhole is growing rapidly and was …
Six apparent sinkholes in Florida have made at least two homes unsafe to occupy. The Ocala Star-Banner reports that the houses in The Villages were evacuated and condemned Feb. 15 after multiple holes emerged between them, cracking the walls of …
A Florida woman called police because she thought she heard a prowler. She actually was hearing the first of several sinkholes that have opened up in a Florida retirement community, displacing seven people. The Villages resident Doris Morrill says she …
A second sinkhole opened up in a Florida neighborhood about a half-mile (.8 kilometers) from where a home was partially swallowed by one earlier the same week. Orange County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Kathleen Kennedy says the sinkhole reported Thursday morning …
A Florida home has been partially swallowed up by a massive sinkhole. Orange County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Kat Kennedy says crews responded Tuesday morning, shortly after the Apopka house began sinking. She says the sinkhole measured about 20 feet across …
Geologists are studying a massive Florida sinkhole that destroyed two homes and rendered five others uninhabitable. Experts might ever know exactly what caused Pasco County’s largest sinkhole in decades, but a team of University of South Florida researchers have descended …
Officials in Florida said Saturday a sinkhole that swallowed two homes last month is growing. Pasco County officials during a news conference that a large chunk of the hole’s edge has collapsed. Two more homes in Land O’Lakes, a Tampa …
Florida sinkhole that swallowed two homes last week isn’t getting any deeper, but it’s getting wider, officials said Wednesday –and one resident who’s back home after being evacuated is vowing to stay unless the hole consumes her house. “I’m apprehensive, …
