This happens at every school in a fire area. If we had been paying attention, we would have seen this.
Yes, children died, but not 1700. The death toll has been at 115 for a couple of weeks now and they are nearly done searching. They are NOT going to find a place with 1700 incinerated children because it didn’t happen.
The names of the dead that they are releasing are mostly older, as is usually the case. The last time I looked, there were a handful of children, one young boy who died with his dog.
As for being unaccounted, people just leave. Many people are very traumatized by this type of experience and simply leave and notify no one. Again, it happens at every fire. It will be months before they track down everyone.
Fire was very hot, most were just bones not bodies. Difficult to ID or even may miss in the search.
Two it’s an island, how many went out to sea?