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3 Rescued From Sinkhole At Long Island Home (Video) 3 Rescued From Sinkhole At Long Island Home (Video)
3 Rescued From Sinkhole At Long Island Home (Video) Three people had to be rescued after getting stuck in a large sinkhole that formed in the front yard of a Long Island home. Rescue crews in Huntington Station were called just after 6 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, with reports that a woman was trapped in a hole in the ground outside a home on West 10th Street, according to Suffolk County Police. When officers arrived, they found three people in the hole - two men in their 60s and a woman in her 70s. The hole measured approximately six feet wide by six feet deep, police said. Three people had to be rescued after falling into a sink hole in Hu…

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Man Rescued From Collapsed Cesspool On Long Island Man Rescued From Collapsed Cesspool On Long Island
Man Rescued From Collapsed Cesspool On Long Island Police officers came to the rescue of a man who fell into a collapsed cesspool while doing yard work on Long Island. Ralph Santos, 88, was weed whacking at approximately 5:20 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 3 in his backyard on Bancroft Road in North Bay Shore when a cesspool collapsed in the yard, creating a sinkhole, Suffolk County Police said. According to police, Santos fell into the hole, and was forced to use the electrical cord from the weed whacker to keep his head above the contents of the cesspool.  He was located a short time later by his wife, who made an emergency call to the Suffol…

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by Zak Failla