• Friends identify another victim in Longview chemical tank failure: 'One of the most selfless individuals you’ll ever meet'
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    Friends identify another victim in Longview chemical tank failure: ‘One of the most selfless individuals you’ll ever meet’

    May 29, 2026 - By 

    Braydon Finkas was identified as one of the original nine people missing at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company after the deadly chemical tank rupture Tuesday. LONGVIEW, Wash. — As the days go by, the names of more victims of Tuesday’s deadly chemical tank rupture continue to circulate on social media, along with more fundraisers to try and help those victims’ families in the only way many know how. One of those victims has been identified by friends as 37-year-old Braydon Finkas. Javier Sanchez was friends with Finkas, who lived in Cathlamet. On Thursday, Sanchez described Finkas as “one of the…

  • Kyle Busch battled bacterial pneumonia for 'days to weeks' before rapid organ failure, death certificate shows
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    Kyle Busch battled bacterial pneumonia for ‘days to weeks’ before rapid organ failure, death certificate shows

    May 28, 2026 - By 

    Kyle Busch’s death certificate, obtained by multiple outlets, reveals that the two-time NASCAR champion silently fought a severe lung infection for weeks. Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion who died May 21 at age 41had been battling bacterial pneumonia for “days to weeks” before his death, according to his death certificate. The document, obtained by multiple media outlets on Wednesday, paints a grim picture of his final hours. Busch’s pneumonia progressed into sepsis roughly one day before he died, and the sepsis then triggered a cascade of additional organ failure. The sepsis led to disseminated intravascular coagulation —…