A number of buildings were affected by a 60-foot-widesinkholethat formed under a resort building near Disney World in central Florida late Sunday.
One three-story building collapsed and another sank at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, according to CNN (http://bit.ly/15un1Ko). An estimated 35 people escaped the structures.
A roughly 15-foot-deep crater swallowed much of one building, according to Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar. A witness said one couple and their infant escaped through a window because a door frame collapsed.
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In March 2013, a man wasswallowed by a sinkholethat opened underneath him while he was lying in bed in his suburban Tampa home. Elsewhere in the nation, asinkhole swallowed three cars and injured one personin Chicago in April, while firefighters in Toledo rescued a driver whosecar fell into a sinkholelast month.
