As many as 17 Fogo Street residents were still unable to return home Monday after a mine subsidence impacting roughly 100 square metres of the Wallsend neighbourhood caused the ground to sink at the weekend.
Emergency services initially evacuated around 40 residents as a precaution Saturday, and several others on surrounding streets were told to be ready to move if the situation worsened, but Police leading the multi-agency response said Monday that the ground appeared to be settling, or at least not falling any further, and that there had been as yet no structural damage to any residential properties in the area.
