As of Saturday, officials had confirmed the identities of only two victims and had barely started searching the disaster zone with canine teams.
“It’s going to make identification and notification really difficult,” she said, adding that “it’s painful just to think about that.”For days now, families have struggled to learn the status of loved ones in West Maui.
Spotty-to-nonexistent phone reception, especially in the immediate aftermath, made it hard for survivors to contact loved ones.
That time, she said, was “very hard, very stressful.”Others have had heard nothing.
Chief John Pelletier of the Maui Police Department urged people searching for loved ones to take a DNA test that could help identify their remains.
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Organizations:
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