<p>A Florida man screamed for help and disappeared as a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house, his brother said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The brother told rescue crews he heard a loud crash near midnight yesterday, then heard his brother screaming.<br /><br />"When he got there, there was no bedroom left," Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said. "There was no furniture. All he saw was a piece of the mattress sticking up."<br /><br />The brother called police and frantically tried to help. An arriving deputy pulled him from the still-collapsing house. There's been no contact with the man since then, and neighbours on both sides of the home have been evacuated.<br /><br />"We put engineering equipment into the sinkhole and didn't see anything compatible with life," Damico said. But Damico would not say that the man is presumed dead.<br />Damico estimated that the sinkhole was about 30 feet (9 metres) across.<br />"The entire house is on the sinkhole," Damico said.</p>
<p>A Florida man screamed for help and disappeared as a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house, his brother said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The brother told rescue crews he heard a loud crash near midnight yesterday, then heard his brother screaming.<br /><br />"When he got there, there was no bedroom left," Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said. "There was no furniture. All he saw was a piece of the mattress sticking up."<br /><br />The brother called police and frantically tried to help. An arriving deputy pulled him from the still-collapsing house. There's been no contact with the man since then, and neighbours on both sides of the home have been evacuated.<br /><br />"We put engineering equipment into the sinkhole and didn't see anything compatible with life," Damico said. But Damico would not say that the man is presumed dead.<br />Damico estimated that the sinkhole was about 30 feet (9 metres) across.<br />"The entire house is on the sinkhole," Damico said.</p>