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The victims—travelers, workers, and family members—were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were individuals with lives, families, and futures that were cut tragically short. Their deaths weren’t just numbers on a casualty report; they represented the profound human toll of nature’s capricious violence. The search teams worked tirelessly, each man and woman driven by the hope of offering some kind of closure to the families waiting anxiously by their phones in cities like Vancouver, Kamloops, and beyond. But no amount of effort could bring back the lost lives, and no matter how many bodies were recovered, the grief of the local community would never truly be erased.
