(4 Dec 2024)
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Unity Township, Pennsylvania – 4 December 2024
1. Various of scene
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Trooper Steve Limani, Pennsylvania State Police:
“We, we have not been able to get any type of location of her as of yet other than to know that we you know, we’re virtually positive she’s in the mine and it’s just a matter of trying to to find her and do right by her family.”
3. Various of authorities at scene
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Trooper Steve Limani, Pennsylvania State Police:
“You know, we feel like we failed. It’s it’s tough. We you know, we have a lot of wins out here where I’ve been proud to be a trooper for a very long time. And, you know, it’s been tough. We had a tough go of it yesterday, in the last night. And in the tough go we’re having, there’s nothing compared to what the families had to go through.”
5. Various of authorities at the scene
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Trooper Steve Limani, Pennsylvania State Police:
“Because of the fragile state of the mine, we’ve had to change what we were trying to do. We were trying to use like basically a suction of removal of dirt and debris and rocks and things of that nature, and also using water to try and soften the debris up or even to push it out of our way to where we have to dig out a massive area of more than four times the size of the area that we had originally done to try and secure the mine so that we can access it to try and go in there to recover her.”
7. Various of excavator and authorities at scene
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Trooper Steve Limani, Pennsylvania State Police:
“We’re not quitting. We are going to continue to work through this. It’s just it’s taken longer than we thought and that the mind is just not in good condition. And it’s it’s got areas of of where it started to collapse and decay and buckle a little bit. And we just we’re afraid we’re going to we’re going to make it worse if we try to continue to plow forward with the techniques we were using.”
9. Wide of truck at scene
STORYLINE:
The search for a woman who is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is moving into a recovery effort after two days of searching produced no signs of life, authorities said Wednesday.
Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Trooper Steve Limani said during a news conference that authorities no longer believe they will find 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard alive, but that the search for her remains continues.
“We’ve had no signs of any form of life or anything,” Limani said.
Emergency crews and others have been trying to locate Pollard, 64, for two days.
Her relatives reported her missing early Tuesday and her vehicle with her unharmed 5-year-old granddaughter inside was found about two hours later, near what is thought to be a freshly opened sinkhole above the long closed, crumbling mine.
Authorities said in a noon update that the roof of the mine has collapsed in several places and is not stable.
The sinkhole is in the village of Marguerite, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh.
On Wednesday afternoon, machinery was removing material from the area around the hole while police and other government vehicles blocked a clear view of the scene.
Sinkholes occur in the area because of subsidence from coal mining activity.
Rescuers had been using water to break down and remove clay and dirt from the mine, which has been closed since the 1950s, but that increased the risk “for potential other mine subsidence to take place," Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Trooper Steve Limani said.
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