Officials said more than 1,700 people reported missing have been found safe.
Thursday more than two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, and officials asked anyone who knows a person on the list to be safe to contact authorities.that destroyed the historic seaside community of Lahaina stands at 115, a number the county said is expected to rise.
Names on the list were deemed validated if officials had a person’s first and last name and a verified contact for the person who reported them missing, officials said. On Wednesday, officials said 1,000 to 1,100 names remained on the FBI’s tentative, unconfirmed list of people unaccounted for, but DNA had been collected from only 104 families, a figure far lower than in previous major disasters around the country.
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