{"id":59193,"date":"2016-12-06T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59193"},"modified":"2016-12-06T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:41:14","slug":"whats-with-all-the-deadly-sinkholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59193","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s with all the deadly sinkholes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Texas sinkhole swallows two cars, killing a sheriff\u2019s deputy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY NETWORK Emily Porter, KENS-TV, San Antonio<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USA TODAY - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/embed\/95031686\/?fullsite=true\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-PjQ63p4b52c\" class=\"story-asset video-asset\">\n<div class=\"ui-video-wrapper  \">\n<div class=\"ui-video-controls story-video inline-story-video priority\">\n<p class=\"video-desc\">An off-duty sheriff&#8217;s deputy died and two other people were hurt when two vehicles plunged into a sinkhole in San Antonio, Texas. The Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Monday identified the victim as 69-year-old Deputy Dora Linda Nishihara. <span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"module-position-PjQ63p73oPw\" class=\"story-asset story-metadata-asset\">\n<div class=\"article-metadata-wrap\">\n<section id=\"module-position-PjQ63p4mOis\" class=\"storymetadata-bucket expandable-photo-module story-expandable-photo-module\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo expandable-collapsed\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand-img-horiz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/f6971d504a6d894cb7944de3d383c26c5c6bb869\/c=0-0-533-401&amp;r=x404&amp;c=534x401\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/12\/06\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636166070945476997-15391311-10154712021844030-7902777953999225952-o-1480978814984-7251535-ver1.0-2.jpg\" alt=\"636166070945476997-15391311-10154712021844030-7902777953999225952-o-1480978814984-7251535-ver1.0-2.jpg\" data-mycapture-src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2016\/12\/06\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636166070945476997-15391311-10154712021844030-7902777953999225952-o-1480978814984-7251535-ver1.0-2.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/3d5569507733ca056af5edaf0a2a8036c559fb13\/r=500x375\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/12\/06\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636166070945476997-15391311-10154712021844030-7902777953999225952-o-1480978814984-7251535-ver1.0-2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"image-credit-wrap\"><span class=\"js-caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: KENS-TV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO&#8211; A Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy was <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gySCZB\">killed after her car was swallowed by a sinkhole on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dora Linda (Solis) Nishihara, who had been with the agency for seven years, was killed on Sunday, the Sheriff&#8217;s Department said in a tweet. Two others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Fire Department confirmed Monday that two cars were swallowed by the sinkhole. Firefighters removed the two vehicles from the sinkhole shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole, which was located on a two lane road in southwest San Antonio, was first reported around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday night, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said a man in his 60s was driving through standing water when his vehicle entered the sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p>Occupants of a car passing by saw the man stranded and stopped to help him. Firefighters said a woman was injured in the process of helping the man.<\/p>\n<p>The man who entered the sinkhole and the woman who stopped to help him were both transported to Southwest General to be treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>By the time first responders were able to make it to the scene, they realized that Nishihara&#8217;s vehicle was already 90% submerged in the waters, and it was not likely that she would have survived.<\/p>\n<p>A 100-ton crane was taken to the scene to remove both vehicles from the sinkhole Monday afternoon. The car containing the Nishihara&#8217;s body was removed around 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Hood said in a press conference immediately following that there was not much first responders could&#8217;ve done to save Nishihara.<\/p>\n<p>Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau said in a statement that officials were devastated by Nishihara&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with her friends and family,&#8221; she said in a statement. &#8220;Deputy Nishihara worked as a Reserve Deputy from August 2009 to October 2016 before transitioning to a part-time Deputy at the Bexar County Courthouse in October of this year. We are assisting her family as they deal with this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>__<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2016\/12\/06\/texas-sinkhole-swallows-two-cars-killing-sheriffs-deputy\/95031390\/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2016\/12\/06\/texas-sinkhole-swallows-two-cars-killing-sheriffs-deputy\/95031390\/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas sinkhole swallows two cars, killing a sheriff\u2019s deputy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}