{"id":4831,"date":"2026-04-23T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:16:08","slug":"breaking-news-sad-news-just-confirmed-the-passing-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=4831","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS!! Sad news just confirmed the passing of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hill didn\u2019t just collapse. It swallowed them. In seconds, Highway 99 turned into a graveyard of mud, twisted metal, and unanswered prayers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<div id=\"interesting-usa.com_responsive_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Families waited for calls that never came. Rescuers clawed through debris as the rain kept falling, and the clock kept killing hope. Three men found.<\/p>\n<p>One still lost. A woman gone. A province br\u2026CONTINUE READING IN BELOW<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\">\n<div id=\"interesting-usa.com_responsive_2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the shadow of the mountains south of Lillooet, the search teams finally had to stop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">\n<div id=\"interesting-usa.com_responsive_3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Days of digging through unstable mud and shattered vehicles yielded three men\u2019s bodies,<\/p>\n<p>following the earlier recovery of a woman who never made it home.<\/p>\n<p>One more man remains missing, his absence<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"interesting-usa.com_responsive_4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>now a quiet wound in the lives of those who loved him.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say every viable search option has been exhausted,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1939652\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>but the emotional aftershocks are only beginning. Families are being notified,<\/p>\n<p>names are being confirmed, and communities already battered by a year of fires, floods, and loss are<\/p>\n<p>bracing for yet another funeral, or perhaps the harder fate of never knowing.<\/p>\n<p>As Highway 99 stays closed and the slide zone lies eerily still,<\/p>\n<p>British Columbia is left wrestling with a brutal question:<\/p>\n<p>how many more lives must be buried before we learn how to protect the ones still standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hill didn\u2019t just collapse. It swallowed them. In seconds, Highway 99 turned into a graveyard of mud, twisted metal, and unanswered prayers. 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