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Overbrook Water Main Break Opens Sinkhole, Swallows Truck

OVERBROOK (KDKA) – A large water main break in Overbrook caused a sinkhole to open up and swallow a truck.

According to emergency dispatchers, the break happened in the 2500-block of Homehurst Avenue Monday morning.

At the site of the break, a massive sinkhole swallowed a truck and a 30-foot trailer parked in a driveway.

The owner was able to move two cars before the driveway caved.

"They're gone. Everything that was in the trailer is sprawled out in the yard. He rushed out of there. He said the water was already [two-feet], gushing up when he was pulling all the vehicles out. It was a last-minute save," Carl Baumgart Jr. said.

The break is just above Route 88, which is under construction. There's concern that the tractor-trailers, large equipment and extra vehicles on the side road may have weakened the road and the concrete lock joint water main.

The break sent water rushing down a hill. At least one home at the bottom of the hill has suffered significant damage.

"It's washed out. Everything is washed out. My foundation is washed out. My first floor looks like a swimming pool," the homeowner said. "They've been doing construction for weeks, holding us hostage on this street. Now a water main breaks and I have no more home."

Penn American Water crews said the 30-inch concrete main was installed in the 1960's.

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