Number of missing people also down after deadliest fire in the US for more than a century.
Officials had put the figure from the fires in Maui at 115, but that has been reduced to 97 after testing showed multiple DNA samples had been used from some of the victims.
“For the very first time… we legitimately have a chance to identify every single person we lost and to reunite them with their family,” he said. “And so in the midst of all this tragedy, there’s a little ray of hope right there and so that really is incredible.” He said the lower tally was the “normal and natural” progression of the long-term forensics investigation.
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