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Hawaii wildfires: More than 1,000 people reported missing in Maui weeks after blaze
CNBC, MSN ^ | 8/23/22 | Spencer Kimball

Posted on 08/23/2023 8:55:39 AM PDT by DallasBiff

More than 1,000 people are reported missing in Maui three weeks after catastrophic wildfires destroyed the town of Lahaina.

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said that law enforcement plans to release a verified list of people who are unaccounted for in the coming days.

Law enforcement has located 1,400 people so far out of an initial number of 2,500 people reported missing.

The police chief said he cannot guarantee the remains of everyone who perished will be recovered.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: fire; lahaina; maui; missing
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To: Jeff Chandler
Human bodies don’t just burn into ash like a tree branch. If they died in the fire, there will be discoverable remains

How many bodies were identified in the Dresden fire storm in 1944?

Please all you WWII historians on FR, I know my history and it was war, and I disagree vehemently that Churchill was a war criminal.

He did everything to win the war.

21 posted on 08/23/2023 9:24:42 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

Be a shame if Oprah and Mark suddenly “disappeared.”


22 posted on 08/23/2023 9:25:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff
How many bodies were identified in the Dresden fire storm in 1944? Please all you WWII historians on FR, I know my history and it was war, and I disagree vehemently that Churchill was a war criminal.

How many were identified in Coventry, and Rotterdam, and Warsaw, and in all those Belarusian villages that were torched like in "Come and See"?

23 posted on 08/23/2023 9:26:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

How are 1000 dead important when Chomo Joe almost lost his 67 Corvette from a lightning strike?


24 posted on 08/23/2023 9:26:36 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

If I didnt know this crap was scripted I would have to say that THIS CRAP IS SCRIPTED. Its going exactly as the libs want.


25 posted on 08/23/2023 9:29:27 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Sufferings are the guardrails on the road to Heaven.)
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To: Delta 21

We’re these the Jew lasers a female Republican spoke of?


26 posted on 08/23/2023 9:31:40 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: dfwgator
How many were identified in Coventry, and Rotterdam, and Warsaw, and in all those Belarusian villages that were torched like in "Come and See"?

You are correct the nazi's started the destruction.

27 posted on 08/23/2023 9:31:54 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

Did they identify people when they touched Waco?


28 posted on 08/23/2023 9:34:26 AM PDT by just me (Trade your liberty for temporary safety. I will keep mine. My family doesn't fly a white flag.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Like the Twin Towers?


29 posted on 08/23/2023 9:38:20 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: DallasBiff; Karliner

Intense, concentrated burns over a long period of time is not the same as a fast-moving brush fire.

Talk to a mortician.


30 posted on 08/23/2023 9:44:28 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: butlerweave

Resign? Prosecution sounds better and more appropriate.


31 posted on 08/23/2023 9:46:30 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: DallasBiff

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. May God bless those who are lost and comfort their loved ones. I can’t even imagine the horror they went through.


32 posted on 08/23/2023 9:46:40 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: butlerweave

The Marxist Dem Gov’t isn’t interested in finding people, they just want to purchase their property for pennies.


33 posted on 08/23/2023 9:47:14 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Containers of ashes should start showing up at press offices.


34 posted on 08/23/2023 9:47:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Jeff Chandler
Intense, concentrated burns over a long period of time is not the same as a fast-moving brush fire.

Talk to a mortician.

Then why after almost 3 weeks 1000 people are still missing?

35 posted on 08/23/2023 9:49:04 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

Churchill (whom I greatly admire) was not a war criminal and neither was Roosevelt (whom I didn’t). The Dresden bombing was horrific; and, perhaps, unnecessary: But, as you say, it was war, and not unusual. The same could be said about the fire bombing of Tokyo: Horrific; but not unusual in war.


36 posted on 08/23/2023 10:12:08 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: metmom; All

Many of those 2500 people were just “missing” because they could not be contacted by their loved ones because there was no cell phone service in NW Maui for several days.

Anyone who escaped north of Laihina was basically off the grid for several days.

Many of the people that perished in the fire were burned beyond recognition. Their dental office records may have too been destroyed by the fire. Hence the DNA requests. It was so hot that cast steel engine blocks in automobiles were melted/altered by the fire. I am not sure what that temperature was to melt cast/steel. So, that is why there may not be any remains of some of the victims. Not even teeth.


37 posted on 08/23/2023 10:12:22 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: DallasBiff

“Then why after almost 3 weeks 1000 people are still missing?”

Fires leave a hell of a lot of debris.


38 posted on 08/23/2023 10:12:57 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

Germans wanted “Totaler Krieg” and they got it.


39 posted on 08/23/2023 10:14:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EEGator

Didnt hear that part.

I have been just shaking my head waiting for the other shoe to drop. NORK shenanighans, or China sinking Taiwan or Putin Nuking somewhere, anywhere, it doesnt matter...


40 posted on 08/23/2023 10:14:24 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Sufferings are the guardrails on the road to Heaven.)
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