The death toll from the Maui wildfires has now dropped to 97 people, after officials previously believed at least 115 had been lost to the devastation — and 31 remain missing.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green explained the changing numbers on CNN on Friday: “The death toll dropped because we have Department of Defense anthropologists who are able to do a lot more advanced genetics. They were able to make sure we weren’t tragically commingling any of the people we lost.”
