{"id":338591,"date":"2022-11-20T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=338591"},"modified":"2022-11-30T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:05:16","slug":"giant-sinkhole-threatens-to-swallow-west-virginia-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/giant-sinkhole-threatens-to-swallow-west-virginia-police-station","title":{"rendered":"Giant Sinkhole Threatens To Swallow West Virginia Police Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An enormous sinkhole in Hinton, West Virginia, that has threatened to swallow the town&#8217;s police station on Route 20 has spurred officials from the state Division of Highways to pour fill material under the road and start construction of a 120-foot bridge over the hole, per CNN . &#8220;We just put it together like a big Lego set,&#8221; said Joe Pack , chief engineer of district operations of the West Virginia Division of Highways, in a press release Friday. The sinkhole first appeared in June and was initially 6 feet wide and 30 feet deep. The police department moved personnel from the building in July and expects the building will eventually have to be demolished, WVNS-TV reported . Fill material proved to be a successful solution for under the road until rains from Hurricane Nicole earlier this month washed it all out &#8212; and made the sinkhole even bigger. Construction of a temporary bridge began Saturday and is expected to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caused by a failing 90-year-old drain beneath the road, the sinkhole is spurring construction of a temporary bridge &#8212; and an impending $5 million permanent fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}