{"id":274655,"date":"2026-05-18T01:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274655\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:39:23","slug":"20-feet-sinkhole-near-orlando-causes-major-concern-for-residents-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274655\/","title":{"rendered":"20 feet sinkhole near Orlando causes major concern for residents &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WSVN) &#8211; MAITLAND, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 A sinking situation caused major concern for residents near Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>A sinkhole formed on Friday in Maitland close to neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the hole was initially 20 feet in diameter, but just hours later, it doubled in size.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time it has happened in the area, which has many residents worried. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really just on the other side. It\u2019s very close to my home. I really want to know that it has stopped growing. That\u2019s what I want to know. That\u2019s what I would say is really my biggest concern,\u201d said Susan Jaffee, Maitland Club resident.<\/p>\n<p>The road where the sinkhole opened has been closed to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said repairs will begin as soon as they can figure out if the hole has stopped expanding.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WSVN) &#8211; MAITLAND, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 A sinking situation caused major concern for residents near Orlando. A sinkhole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-274655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}