{"id":496143,"date":"2026-10-14T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496143\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:58:09","slug":"video-shows-hollywood-sinkhole-swallowing-spectrum-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496143\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows Hollywood sinkhole swallowing Spectrum van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild aerial footage showed a sinkhole that swallowed a van in Hollywood on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The footage was captured near the intersection of Franklin and Normandie avenues, near the <a href=\"https:\/\/sowdenhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">John Sowden House<\/a>, just before noon. The front half of a Spectrum van was entirely underground, with its back tires anchored at street level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum told CBS LA in a statement that a technician was working in the area when the sinkhole opened up, and the individual was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re working with local officials and first responders, and we&#8217;ll support them however we can as they assess the situation,&#8221; a Spectrum spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/copy-of-generic-youtube-thumbnail-no-gradient-2026-10-14t120103-333.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"copy-of-generic-youtube-thumbnail-no-gradient-2026-10-14t120103-333.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS LA<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not yet clear how the sinkhole opened up. Video posted to The Citizen App showed a large stream of water flowing through the area on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Street closures haven&#8217;t been announced.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were available as of noon Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild aerial footage showed a sinkhole that swallowed a van in Hollywood on Wednesday. The footage was captured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-496143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}