As of Monday, there were 115 people confirmed dead, according to Maui police.
All single-story, residential properties in the disaster area had been searched, and teams were transitioning to searching multi-story residential and commercial properties, Maui County officials said in an update late Monday.“The names of, and any information related to the missing individuals, will not be published or be made publicly available at this time,” a Maui County spokesperson told The Associated Press via text message.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Tuesday that the Maui Police Department has instructed the medical examiner in Honolulu — where some burn patients were taken for treatment — not to release the names of anyone who dies as a result of injuries sustained in Lahaina fire. The request came after one severely burned patient died and the man’s name appeared in media reports after notification of his next of kin.
To find people, the organization cross-checks names with emergency shelter registration lists, calls hospitals to see if the person was admitted as a patient and combs through social media, among other steps, Parra said. When an individual is located, the organization provides their status to the person seeking information about them — with the individual’s consent — and closes the case in its system.
Babrauskas added that damage from debris removal and excavation can also make recovery efforts difficult. “We had this Excel spreadsheet with the people’s names and any of the different information we had,” he said. “We’d then start working the cases similar to the way you work any other case to try to locate somebody.”
“There are so many of those who won’t have that ending. I don’t know how we come back from that,” Ferguson said.
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