© WCBS/Mona Rivera/1010 WINSMichael Ciron, 80, stands near the 8-foot-deep sinkhole that opened up on his front lawn in Oceanside, L.I. Ciron fell into the hole Sunday while retrieving his newspaper.
Oceanside, New York - Firefighters rescued an 80-year-old Long Island man who had fallen into a sinkhole on his front lawn.
Michael Ciron had stepped onto his lawn Sunday morning to retrieve his newspaper when he fell into an 8-foot-deep sinkhole, reports CBS Station WCBS.
"I picked up the paper, before you know it, I fell into this here hole," Ciron told WINS Newsradio's Mona Rivera.
His daughter, Maria Ciron, was awakened by his screams. "I run to his room first thinking that maybe he fell down or something," she said.
She finally found her father outside, trying to dig himself out of the sinkhole.
"Taking the dirt from the higher part, scraping it down, and I finally got my head out," Ciron told WINS. His daughter called 911, and a short time later the Oceanside fire department arrived and freed him.
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