Volunteers look for remains in burned homes, cars
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(16 Nov 2018) Search and rescue workers, including many volunteers, fanned out across fire-ravaged in search of the remains of victims who perished in California's deadliest wildfire. More than 450 rescue workers wearing white jump suits went house to house looking for possible remains in the rubble in the city of 27,000 people. Anthropologists and graduate students from California State University, Chico are other institutions are on hand to determine whether remains belong to humans - rather than animals. Human remains are taken elsewhere for further analysis. But Cal State professor Jesse Dizard says many of remains are so badly burned and degraded that they won't allow for DNA analysis. In that case, he said, investigators will have to use other means to identify them, including dental records, surgical implants and home addresses of the missing. The so-called Camp Fire has left dozens of people dead and hundreds unaccounted for in the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century. The blaze has destroyed more than 8,700 homes and burned more than 220-square miles. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ac25ace08326049ef010fd815e2ae0c5
