WA/What we know about the victims in the Longview chemical tank implosion

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What we know about the victims in the Longview chemical tank implosion

May 28, 2026, 5:46 AM | Updated: 8:21 am

Two people are dead, nine people are missing, and eight more are hurt after a vat containing hundreds of thousands of gallons of dangerous chemicals failed at the Nippon Dynawave packaging plant in Longview.

KIRO 7 has learned the identity of the first person confirmed dead: Gilbert Bernal. A friend has set up a GoFundMe for his family to pay for funeral expenses.

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“When anything happens at the mills, we all know someone affected,” Spencer Boudreau, the vigil organizer and former Longview mayor, said. “This is probably the worst job site disaster we have had here, ever.”

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Several state agencies have been called in to help, including the National Guard, the Department of Health, the Department of Ecology, and the Department of Labor and Industries, to assist in the cleanup and the investigation into what happened.

Officials said Wednesday that crews are on a recovery mission for the nine missing employees, rather than a rescue. Another GoFundMe has identified one of the missing employees as Jared Ammons. Jared has left behind a wife, two kids, and one on the way.

… more … gofundme at link …

(Charity begging for dead peasants funerals. This makes me so mad. Rich corporations should pay. A lot.)