On Tuesday , Hawaiian functionary cheer mob member to ply deoxyribonucleic acid samples that might help oneself identify congeneric missing from the wildfires . There are still more than 1,000 people miss after the United States deadliest wildfire in more than a hundred swept through Maui .
The FBI ’s unaccounted list pronounce there are 1,000 to 1,100 unknown people miss as of Tuesday , up from 850 the daylight before , but with only 104 DNA sampling collect from kin member , official say they have little Bob Hope of identifying the clay . “ almost three - quarters of the remains that have been tested for DNA thus far have generated searchable DNA outcome , ” Julie French , who is assisting in identify the remains , say during apress conferenceon Tuesday . “ We postulate family phallus to come forward and donate their samples so that we can equate them to these desoxyribonucleic acid profiles we ’ve already generated from clay . ”
TheFamily Assistance Centeris collect the DNA samples , and Maui Prosecuting Attorney Andrew Martin , who is in rush of the centre , said at the conference that people do n’t need to fear that they ’ll be entered into a government activity - discharge database . He and French said family appendage also do not need to interest that their immigration status or citizenship will be reviewed , saying the DNA will only be used for the “ sole role of comparing . ” Martin continued , “ What we desire to do — all we need to do — is help hoi polloi site and identify their unaccounted - for loved ones . ”
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Maui Island law are facing extra difficulties in corroborate the list of the pretermit multitude and in some case , they have only receive partial name . Police Chief John Pelletier said at the conference that another worry is there may be duplicated names in their files .
“ We want to get a verified list , ” Pelletier said . “ The 1,100 name right now , we know that there ’s a leeway of that that some of them have first names only and there ’s no inter-group communication routine back . So there was a ‘ John ’s missing , ’ and when we sample to call back who said that , no one is resolve , ” he said . “ And so we ’re trying to scrub this to make it as accurate as we can . ”
He add , “ If you sense you ’ve got a family appendage that ’s unaccounted for , give the DNA . Do the report . Let ’s visualise this out . A name with no callback does n’t assist anybody . ”
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