Chatsworth sinkhole that swallowed 2 cars grows bigger even as crews salvage mangled vehicles and cope with raw sewage leak
Tuesday night an excavator was able to pull the mangled debris of the wrecked vehicles out of the hole. A pipeline that also runs through the site was leaking raw sewage into the hole.The hole initially opened up on Iverson Road Monday night, swallowing up two vehicles. It came after several powerful storms hit Southern California dropping heavy rainfall, and triggering mud flows and flooding.
A woman and her teen daughter were in the first vehicle to fall and then a pickup truck landed on top of them. The occupants of the pickup were able to escape on their own, but Los Angeles firefighters had to work carefully to rescue the woman and her daughter even as the ground continued to shift and destabilize under them.
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