Hawaii officials worked painstakingly to identify the 99 people confirmed killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui, Report informs referring to ABC News.
A week after a blaze tore through historic Lahaina, many who survived have started moving into hundreds of hotel rooms set aside for displaced locals.
But 60 people who were deemed missing were found safe in a single house, ABC News has learned.
Officials are now using the term "unaccounted for" instead of "missing" because many people on the Hawaiian island have no power, internet or phones and can't get in touch with relatives or authorities.
The wildfires, some of which have not yet been fully contained, are already the deadliest in the US in more than a century. The cause was under investigation.
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The death toll in Hawaii's wildfires rose to 99 and could double over the next 10 days, the state's governor said Monday, as emergency personnel scoured the incinerated landscape for more human remains, Report informs, citing CGTN.
But Governor Josh Green said more fatalities are certain, as emergency responders with cadaver dogs work their way through hundreds of homes and burned-out vehicles.
"The updated number of 99 confirmed people has passed," he told CNN on Monday, adding that "it will go up very significantly. Over the course of the next 10 days, this number could double."
Green said rescue workers were finding between 10 and 20 dead bodies each day, with only a small portion of Lahaina near the waterfront searched so far.
The number of people still missing is down to around 1,300, although delays restoring cell phone communications have made it difficult for residents who fled to reconnect.