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Dec 5 2016, 9:10 am ET
Oakland Warehouse Fire: Victims' Families Face Agonizing Wait
by Alastair Jamieson and Elizabeth Chuck
Anguished families gathered for a third day Monday to await word of their loved ones after the death toll from the massive warehouse party fire in Oakland, California, climbed to 33, including a 17-year-old.
Officials have positively identified eight victims from Friday night's devastating blaze. But relatives are being asked to provide a DNA sample to confirm the identity of many of the others.
"There's a multi-pronged approach to verify their identification, including ... the DNA and the fingerprinting, because a lot of these young members of our community had ID on them, but we're not able to use that as the pure justification and assume that what we find is reality," Oakland Fire Battalion Chief Melinda Drayton told TODAY Monday morning...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-victims-families-face-agonizing-wait-n691911
Oakland Warehouse Fire: Victims' Families Face Agonizing Wait
by Alastair Jamieson and Elizabeth Chuck
Anguished families gathered for a third day Monday to await word of their loved ones after the death toll from the massive warehouse party fire in Oakland, California, climbed to 33, including a 17-year-old.
Officials have positively identified eight victims from Friday night's devastating blaze. But relatives are being asked to provide a DNA sample to confirm the identity of many of the others.
"There's a multi-pronged approach to verify their identification, including ... the DNA and the fingerprinting, because a lot of these young members of our community had ID on them, but we're not able to use that as the pure justification and assume that what we find is reality," Oakland Fire Battalion Chief Melinda Drayton told TODAY Monday morning...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-victims-families-face-agonizing-wait-n691911