A loud crash, and then nothing: Sinkhole swallows Florida man [1]

CNN.com - 3/01/13, By Nick Valencia, Tina Burnside and Michael Pearson

• NEW: Hole, previously reported as 100 feet across, is about 20 to 30 feet wide, engineer says
• The sinkhole opened under a home's bedroom, swallowing a man inside
• Monitoring equipment failed to detect any sign of life in the sinkhole
• "I know in my heart he's dead," man's brother tells CNN affiliate WFTS
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(CNN) -- The ground just swallowed him up.

A Florida man fell into a sinkhole that opened suddenly Thursday night beneath the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, calling out to his brother for help as he fell, a fire department spokeswoman said Friday.

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