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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the British Columbia Coroners Service have spent the last week engaged in a grueling and emotionally taxing recovery effort. This operation was spurred by an unprecedented atmospheric river event that dumped record-breaking amounts of rainfall across the southern region of the province, destabilizing hillsides and turning solid ground into a lethal torrent of debris, timber, and mud. What began as a desperate search for missing travelers has transitioned into a recovery mission as the grim reality of the disaster becomes clearer.
