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March 1st, 2013 
David Schulberg the 3rd “I couldn’t find him. I thought I could hear him holler for me to help him.”
He added: “I know in my heart, he’s dead.”
The brother then had to be rescued by a sheriff’s deputy, Douglas Duvall.
“When he (Duvall) went into the bedroom and saw the person in there, without
thinking of his own safety he got down on his hands and knees, reached down
because the subject was struggling to get out of the hole,” Hillsborough
County Lt Donald Morris told WTSP.
“He managed to get him out of the sinkhole before it took him away as well.”
Emergency crews also had to abandon further attempts to reach the missing man
as the sinkhole was too dangerous to enter. They were able to lower
engineering equipment into the hole – which cannot be seen from the house,
but which is estimated to be up to 30 feet across – but there was still no
sign of life, the spokesman said.
Janell Wheeler told the Tampa Bay Times newspaper she was inside the house
with four other adults and a child when the sinkhole opened.
“It sounded like a car hit my house,” she said.
“I just want my nephew,” she added through tears.
Neighbours on either side of the house have been evacuated and the building
itself has been condemned. “The entire house is on the sinkhole,” the fire
spokesman said.
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