(4 Dec 2024)
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Unity Township, Pennsylvania – 3 December 2024
1. Various of an ambulance arriving near the site where rescuers are searching in a sinkhole for a missing woman
STORYLINE:
Authorities fear a grandmother who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed up by a sinkhole that recently opened up in a western Pennsylvania village.
Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite on Tuesday morning but detected nothing.
A second camera lowered into the hole showed what could be a shoe.
Dozens of firefighters on the scene used an excavator, ladders and hoses to remove material from around the edges and inside the sinkhole as they searched for Pollard.
The opening of the sinkhole, originally about the size of a utility access hole cover, had grown to about the size of a small backyard swimming pool by Tuesday evening
The family of Elizabeth Pollard, 64, called police at about 1 a.m. Tuesday to say she had not been seen since going out Monday evening to search for Pepper, her cat.
Police said they found Pollard’s car parked near Monday’s Union Restaurant in Marguerite, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh.
Pollard’s 5-year-old granddaughter was found safe inside the car.
The manhole-sized opening had not been seen by hunters and restaurant workers who were in the area in the hours before Pollard’s disappearance, leading rescuers to speculate the sinkhole was new.
Police said sinkholes, which are depressions in the ground, occur in the area because of subsidence from coal mining activity.
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