Inside a temporary morgue near the Maui County coroner’s office, a team of specialists—including forensic pathologists, X-ray technicians, fingerprint experts, and forensic dentists—labor 12 hours a day to identify the charred remains of the victims of this month’s cataclysmic wildfire.
They are members of the federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team program, or DMORT, deployed when a mass fatality incident overwhelms local authorities.
