Search and recovery teams say the work to identify human remains in Lahaina is grueling and complicated by the fact that the fire burned so hot, even just making a positive I.D. is difficult.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commander Frank Sebastian heads the federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team in Lahaina, Hawaii.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commander Frank Sebastian heads the federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team in Lahaina, Hawaii.LAHAINA, Hawaii — In the burn zone of Lahaina, the search and recovery effort continues in the wake of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than 100 years.
on Maui into whole neighborhoods that now infamous day of August 8th. It's a huge challenge trying to make IDs when the fire incinerated so much evidence. "In this case that's a pretty difficult task due to the condition of the remains," Sebastian says."When you're dealing with burns you have a lot of destruction of tissue. It becomes a very painstaking process to reassemble that."to work off or dental records given to the teams by families of those who are unaccounted for.
But the work is long, arduous and grim, even for veterans of the team who've responded to scores other deadly wildfires and Hurricane Katrina. Posters for missing people and animals are posted around the town including these at the post office in Lahaina.Posters for missing people and animals are posted around the town including these at the post office in Lahaina.On Maui, authorities are pleading with the public to be patient as forensics teams like Sebastian's have been working around the clock now for close to two weeks trying to find bodies in the rubble from the deadly wildfire.
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