Luckily, no one was using the soccer fields at Gordon Moore City Park in Alton when the ground opened up.
Surveillance camera footage and drone photographs show the extent of the sinkhole that opened up on an Illinois soccer field., stretching more than 30 metres across and approximately 15 metres deep, opened up in an Illinois park Wednesday, swallowing a light pole and several benches and leaving a huge crater in its wake.
NEW: Surveillance footage captures the moment a 100 foot wide and 30 foot deep sinkhole swallows a soccer field in Alton, Illinois.,” Michael Haynes, director of Alton Parks and Recreation, told Fox 2 News in Illinois. “It all went. Actually, one of our lights was in the middle and it’s all gone.
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