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Florida sinkhole visible after victim's home demolished

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Los Angeles Times - Matt Pearce, 3/04/13

Florida sinkhole

On Monday, workers exposed the sinkhole, seen in an image taken from video, that swallowed a Florida man in his home Thursday evening. (WFTS-TV / March 4, 2013)

Demolition crews in Seffner, Fla., on Monday knocked down walls of the house where Jeff Bush, 37, was living before a sinkhole swallowed his bedroom on Thursday night.

The hole was not visible outside the home before an 80-foot excavation arm knocked down the walls and revealed the chasm, which experts thought extended dozens of feet into the earth, where Bush's body is thought to remain.

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Efforts to retrieve man from Florida sinkhole are stopped

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Los Angeles Times - 3/02/13, Marisa Gerber

Police tape surrounds a home where a sinkhole opened beneath the bedroom of Jeff Bush in Seffner, Florida, on Friday, March 1. Sinkholes caused by acidic groundwater corroding the limestone or carbonate rock underground are common in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Take a look at sinkholes throughout the world.

Police tape surrounds a home where a sinkhole opened beneath the bedroom of Jeff Bush in Seffner, Florida, on Friday, March 1. Sinkholes caused by acidic groundwater corroding the limestone or carbonate rock underground are common in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Florida officials said Saturday evening they hadn't found the body of the man swallowed by a sinkhole two days earlier, and planned to stop looking.

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