Bush Family Places Memorial Flowers, Mementos in 1st Bucket of Sinkhole Gravel

Due notice was paid to the final resting place of Jeffrey Bush, 36, who awoke with a start late Feb. 28 to meet his fate in the cavern of a deadly sinkhole. The home in which he lost his life was obliterated after a second day of demolition March 4.

Stabilazation efforts then began, with the first bucket of fill gravel adorned with memorial flowers and mementos that Jeffrey Bush's family had placed there, after solemnly picking them up from where they had last been placed, at the foot of the mailbox at 240 Faithway Drive.

That sidewalk memorial began when Jeremy Bush, who had attempted to save his brother's life that fateful night, placed a single box of flowers across the street from the home, on the eve of the first day of demolition, after it was reported that the search-and-rescue mission had shifted to one of demolition and stabilization.

In a press conference at the scene, early in the morning March 4, Jeremy Bush fought back tears as he questioned earlier reports, which classified the sinkhole as "a chasm that covers a great distance" which renders the area "seriously unstable."

"There is a very large, very fluid mass underneath this house, rendering the entire house, and the entire lot dangerous and unsafe," Bill Bracken, of Bracken Engineering, a chief engineer with Hillsborough's urban, search and rescue team, said at a March 1 press conference. "Unsafe for equipment or any type of vibration. That’s going to severly limit what were doing."

At the scene March 4, Bush fought for composure.

"They said it was dangerous, but you see this heavy equipment, you see that?” he said, choking back tears. “The house is still standing. The only reason the house fell is because they put the machines on it."

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BRANDON PATCH SEFFNER SINKHOLE COVERAGE (Through March 5):

• Video: Final Walls Come Down on Seffner Sinkhole at 240 Faithway Drive

• 2nd Seffner Sinkhole Under Investigation as Stabilization Work Continues

• Seffner Sinkhole Homeowner: 'God Has a Plan'
  

• Seffner Sinkhole Victim Officially 'Presumed' Deceased

• Readers React to Seffner Sinkhole Tragedy

• Family Treasures Salvaged from Seffner Sinkhole Demolition
  

• Demolition Under Way at Seffner Sinkhole Site

• More Photos From the Seffner Sinkhole Site

• Seffner Sinkhole Operation Readies for Impending Demolition

• 3rd Home 'Compromised' at Seffner Sinkhole Site; Relief Fund Established

• Video: Deputy Douglas Duvall Recounts Seffner Sinkhole Heroics

• Situation 'Extremely Unsafe' at Seffner Sinkhole Site

• Family Member Recalls Horror of Seffner Sinkhole Tragedy

• Photos From the Scene of Sinkhole in Seffner

• Video: Hillsborough Fire Chief Discusses Seffner Sinkhole

• Hillsborough County Among Top 10 Sinkhole-Prone Florida Counties

• Update: Sinkhole Swallows Seffner Man Sleeping in Bed

• Video of Deputy Who Worked To Save Men From Sinkhole 
  

• Video: Man Could Hear His Brother Screaming

• Video: Fire Chief Answers Questions             

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