{"id":10187,"date":"2026-04-17T23:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=10187"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:54:56","slug":"breaking-news-sad-news-just-confirmed-the-passing-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=10187","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS!! Sad news just confirmed the passing of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>One still lost. A woman gone. A province br\u2026CONTINUE READING IN BELOW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the shadow of the mountains south of Lillooet, the search teams finally had to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days of digging through unstable mud and shattered vehicles yielded three men\u2019s bodies,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>following the earlier recovery of a woman who never made it home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One more man remains missing, his absence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>now a quiet wound in the lives of those who loved him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials say every viable search option has been exhausted,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but the emotional aftershocks are only beginning. Families are being notified,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>names are being confirmed, and communities already battered by a year of fires, floods, and loss are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bracing for yet another funeral, or perhaps the harder fate of never knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Highway 99 stays closed and the slide zone lies eerily still,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British Columbia is left wrestling with a brutal question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>how many more lives must be buried before we learn how to protect the ones still standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/signal-2026-01-09-024205-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7481\"\/><\/figure>\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. Families waited for calls&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10188,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions\/10188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}