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Gloria Oladipo and agency

Hawaii fire survivors urged to submit DNA to help identify victims

Governor Josh Green embraces his wife Jaime Green at a community event at the Lahaina Civic Center. The governor warned residents to prepare for ‘a lot more loss of life’.
Governor Josh Green embraces his wife Jaime Green at Lahaina Civic Center, Maui. The governor warned residents to ‘brace for’ higher casualty figures. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Hawaii’s governor, Josh Green, has warned residents to prepare for “a lot more loss of life”, as officials ask for DNA submissions and fingerprints from survivors to help identify relatives who were killed by the Maui wildfires, as huge numbers are still missing.

Green urged Hawaiians to brace for a higher death toll from the destruction on the second largest island in the Hawaiian chain, as police still work to find those unaccounted for.

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