Authorities say they don't believe they'll find Elizabeth Pollard alive after she fell into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania.
The search for a woman who is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is moving into a recovery effort after two days of searching produced no signs of life.
The search for a woman who is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is moving into a recovery effort after two days of searching produced no signs of life, authorities said Wednesday.Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Trooper Steve Limani said during a news conference that authorities no longer believe they will find 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard alive, but that the search for her remains continues.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia's News Headlines newsletter.
“We did get, you know, where we wanted, where we thought that she was at. We’ve been to that spot," said Pleasant Unity Fire Chief John Bacha, the incident's operations officer. “What happened at that point, I don’t know, maybe the slurry of mud pushed her one direction. There were several different seams of that mine, shafts that all came together where this happened at.
Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole, but it detected nothing. Another camera lowered into the hole showed what could be a shoe about 30 feet below the surface, Limani said. Searchers have also deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment, to no avail. Her son, Axel Hayes, said Pollard was a happy woman who liked going out to have fun. She and her husband adopted Hayes and his twin brother when they were infants.He said at one point Pollard had about 10 cats.His mother worked for many years at Walmart but recently was not employed, he said.
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