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Maui missing list is slashed by 100 after Lahaina wildfire victims told FBI they were alive and well - but others still listed as missing are dead
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Story by Lewis Pennock For Dailymail.Com •
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The FBI released a list of 388 people who are ‘unaccounted for’ since the deadly wildfires in Maui
An update on Friday said 100 had confirmed they are safe following the list’s publication
But officials have also revealed the published list is a ‘subset’ and there are hundreds more other people still unaccounted
The FBI said 100 people on its list of those who are missing following the wildfires in Maui have confirmed they are safe - after several expressed confusion about why they’d been included at all.
Officials published the names of 388 people who ‘remain unaccounted for’ on Thursday, two weeks after the blaze that’s killed at least 115. The list has now been shortened after many came forward.
But there was fresh concern on Saturday as police said the published names were just a ‘subset’ and that hundreds more people still missing whose names have not been released. Further details on the true number of people potentially still missing have yet to emerge.
A review of the published names revealed several had been traced by relatives soon after the fire, or posted online to confirm they are safe. In one heartbreaking case, a 14-year-old boy whose name appears has already been confirmed dead by his family.
While the confirmation that many are alive offers a glimmer of hope, there was confusion and frustration among some who were listed. Some said officials could have learned from basic checks that they were accounted for.
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