Identification of victims of the Hawaii fires is progressing with difficulty because many remains are unrecognizable
Of the 106 rescued, only five have been identified despite the fact that all the technological and human help is available.
The federal government has deployed a mobile morgue to collect the corpses and compare the DNA with that of the relatives
A week and a half after the disaster what razed the state of Hawaiiin the United States, and which caused more than a hundred deaths, the work of ID of the victims of the fires advance slowly and with great difficulty since many of the remains found are unrecognizable and fingerprints are rarely found.
Of the 106 rescued, only five have been identified despite the fact that all the information is available. technological and human helpincluding scientists from the Colorado-based company ANDE, who have arranged devices that analyze DNA and process the results in less than two hours.
Mobile morgue to collate DNA evidence
The search efforts have been joined by a team of 20 expert tracking dogs of corpses. Those who manage to recover, go to a mobile morgue of 22 tons installed in the area. It is a ‘post mortem’ unit of the federal government that has analysis tables, laboratory equipment and even X-ray machines.
The Police have had to make a heartbreaking request to the relatives of the disappeared: that they present dna swabs in a community center with the aim of collate them with the lifeless bodies that are being rescued. For the moment, 41 people have delivered the samples that are already being compared with the DNA profiles of at least 13 dead.
The North American television channel NBC echoed a demand filed against the principal service company of the archipelago, accusing it of negligence for not turning off the electrical system before the strong winds that hit Hawaii last week.
The American President, Joe Bidenannounced that will travel this coming Monday, August 21, to Maui to visit the area affected by the most serious fires that the country has experienced in the last century. On that island, 2,200 structures, 86% of them residential, were damaged or destroyed.
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2023-08-19 14:01:56
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