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69 Search and betterment squad members cheque charred buildings and cars successful the aftermath of the Maui wildfires successful Lahaina, Hawaii, connected August 18, 2023.
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A full of 850 radical are inactive missing successful transportation with the deadly wildfires that devastated Maui earlier this month, the county's politician announced.
In an overnight update posted to Facebook, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said determination were present 850 radical officially believed to beryllium missing.
At slightest 114 radical died successful the wildfires, the deadliest successful modern U.S. history, helium noted.
Bissen said the fig of missing radical was the effect of the FBI combining and refining assorted lists of missing people.
"We are some saddened and relieved astir these numbers," Bissen said.
"There is affirmative quality successful this number, due to the fact that erstwhile this process began the missing idiosyncratic database contained implicit 2,000 names," helium said, noting that much than 1,285 radical person been located safe.
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