'We can only sit and wait': Rescuers forced to halt bid to reach body of man swallowed by 100ft SINKHOLE and pictured for the first time today as chasm grows bigger

Rescuers have been forced to stop their search for a 37-year-old man who was sucked into a 100-foot-wide sinkhole that opened under his bedroom because it is getting bigger.
The Florida search team expressed their frustration tonight as the sinkhole kept increasing in size making it too perilous to continue their search.
The first pictures of the victim of the natural disaster - Jeff Bush - emerged today.
He is presumed dead after he was swallowed into the 50-foot-deep hole and trapped beneath the rubble at his family's house in Brandon, near Tampa, Florida on Thursday night.
Speaking to ABC News tonight Hillsborough County Officials said it was too unstable to use the equipment needed to try and reach the man.
'Until we know where it's safe to bring the equipment, we really are just handicapped and paralyzed and can't really do a whole lot more than sit and wait,' Hillsborough County Fire Chief Ron Rogers said.
'It's a tough situation; it's even tougher for the family.'
Crews have cautiously been using ground penetrating sonar equipment at the site to map the subsurface throughout the day.
Workers swarmed the area as Jeremy Bush, 36, recalled how he desperately tried to pull Jeff from the rubble as he heard his screams for help.
'We heard a loud crash,' Jeremy told My Fox Tampa Bay as he broke down in tears. 'I ran in there and heard somebody screaming, my brother screaming, and I ran in there.
'And all I see is this big hole. All I see is the top of his bed. I didn't see anything else, so I jumped in the hole and tried getting him out.
"The floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I didn't care. I wanted to save my brother. I could hear him screaming for me, hollering for me. I couldn't do nothing.'
The dresser and the TV set also vanished down the hole, he said.
'All I could see was the cable wire running from the TV going down into the hole. I saw a corner of the bed and a corner of the box spring and the frame of the bed,' he said.

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Hunt: The house still stands and engineers are using sonar technology to find out how deep the hole is

Horror: A man is presumed dead after a sinkhole opened up beneath his house in Brandon, Florida, pictured

Hidden: The sinkhole is only visible from inside the house but could be 100 foot wide under the surface

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue officials arrived at the home at 11 p.m. on Thursday and the first officer on the scene rescued Jeremy Bush from the edge of the chasm.
Lt. Donald Morris from Hillbosourgh County Sheriff's Department described the scene officers found.

'The mattress, the bed, everything was actually going down in the hole where the first person had gone and now the second person is in the hole trying to save the first,' he said.
'And they're not being successful so [the rescuer is] just reacting and doing what they have to do to get that person out. It was deep enough that the person he pulled out to safety was not ale to fully extend their arms and even reach the top.'

Heartbreak: Jeremy Bush, whose brother Jeff was sucked into a sinkhole, breaks down outside the home

Grief: Jeremy had rushed to his brother's room when he heard his screams but it was too late

Shock: The man recounted how he had tried to save his brother but could only see the bed in the hole

Listening devices and cameras were placed in the hole but there had been no contact with the missing man by early Friday.
'We put engineering equipment into the sinkhole and didn't see anything compatible with life,' Fire rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said.
She said that the sinkhole was 30 feet across at the surface, but that engineers have estimated that below the surface it could be as wide as 100 feet and 50 feet deep.

Hunt: Officials use ground penetrating sonar to map the subsurface around the home to determine the extent of the danger. Crews will take this information and create a plan of action to recover Bush

Recovery effort: Crews deploy a cable controlled robot into a storm drain to look for additional damage

Search: A technician views a live video feed from a robot sent into a storm drain underneath the property

'The entire house is on the sinkhole,' Damico said.
Engineers said they may have to demolish the small, sky-blue house, even though from the outside, there appeared to be nothing wrong with the four-bedroom, concrete-wall structure, built in 1974.
The sinkhole is not visible above ground except from inside the house, and officials believe its center is beneath the bedroom. From the outside, there are no cracks visible.

Rescue attempt: His brother heard his screams for help and rushed to his room where he saw the huge hole

Mourning: Family members are seen comforting each other outside the Tampa area home on Friday morning

Five adults and a two-year-old child were in the house at the time of the collapse, but no one else was injured.
Janell Wheeler told the Tampa Bay Times she was inside the house when the sinkhole opened.

'It sounded like a car hit my house,' she said, adding that there were screams as one of her nephews rushed to rescue his brother from the debris.

The rest of the family went to a hotel but she stayed behind with her dog and slept in her car.

'I just want my nephew,' she said through tears.

Condemned: The home and other properties nearby have been evacuated in fear the hole could grow

Probe: Engineers work in front of a home as they try to determine the size of the sinkhole

Search: They believe the sinkhole could be 100ft wide and 50ft deep, but their investigations continue

Search: Officials arrived on the scene at 11.30 p.m. but have so far found no sign that the man is alive

Officials evacuated neighbors living on either side of the home, which they say could be swallowed into the ground at any moment.
'It's the only one we've seen that opened up in this manner there is no evidence of the structure cracking or anything like that on the outside of the house,' Dexter Barge with Hillsborough County's Code Enforcement told WFLA.
Anthony Randazzo, an expert in sinkholes, said he knows of only two people, who both lived in Florida, who have died because of a sinkhole in 40 years of his studies.
'Usually, you have some time,' Randazzo told USA Today. 'These catastrophic sinkholes give you some warning over the course of hours. This is very unusual and very tragic.'

Bizarre: An aerial view of the home shows no sign of the sinkhole which claimed the man's life

DANGER UNDERGROUND: WHY DO SINKHOLES OCCUR?

Watch out: Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania are the states most affected by sinkholes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey

A sinkhole is a hole that opens up suddenly in the ground. They mostly occur because of erosion or underground water that gathers naturally or due to man-made activities.
When this water dissolves the foundation beneath the surface layer, spaces and caverns develop underground. Limestone, carbonate rock, and salt beds are particular vulnerable to this erosion.
Meanwhile, the top layer of Earth usually stays intact. When the dissolving area beneath the surface becomes too large, the surface suddenly gives way.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania are the states most affected by sinkholes.
While they often occur from natural causes, sinkholes can be man-made and caused by human activity. Groundwater pumping and construction are the most likely culprits. They can also occur when water drainage systems are changed.

Source: USGS

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