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It is three miles from where a sinkhole opened under a man's bedroom, killing him.

The distraught brother of Jeff Bush, the man presumed dead after part of his home collapsed into a gaping Florida sinkhole last week, on Monday questioned whether rescue teams did enough initially to try to reach his brother beneath the mud and debris. "You see all this heavy equipment?" Jeremy Bush told a group of reporters."They could have tried harder to get my brother out of there."

Engineers returned to do more tests at a hole that had grown to 20 feet deep and 30 feet wide and that officials said was “seriously unstable.”

Officials and engineers are searching an unstable area of land after a sinkhole enveloped a Florida man’s bedroom in the middle of the night, sucking him down into the earth. The man has not been heard from since the 20-foot-deep by 20-foot-wide hole opened underneath the Bush family’s Hillsborough County home late Thursday night, sending part of the house plummeting but leaving the exterior remarkably intact.