A hurricane death is a death that would not have occurred had there not been a hurricane, |
A lot of these folks have been casketed for a long time, so we've only got bones to deal with, ... Evidently, it's not mandatory to place identification inside the casket, which was news to me. That's not helping. |
Being in the water that long makes visual identification essentially an impossibility, |
By the time we got these folks, the condition in which they were in made initial determination very difficult. I can just tell you there is no way to shorten the process. |
Dental records are a great solution. A good dental record is akin ... to a good fingerprint. |
DNA is our weapon of last resort, ... And I'm at that point. |
Each death is enough. It is horrible, |
Each person is a worst-case scenario, ... There is nothing worse than somebody dying like this. |
I am hoping we won't have that (many unidentified bodies), but I think we will, |
I don't know how many people have died, |
I don't know when you will get that data, ... I'm looking at means to increase the rate. ... It's going horribly slowly. |
I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body. |
I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately got their own helicopters to come in. |
I don't think visual identification will be a possibility, |
I don't want people being alarmed, ... I don't want inflated numbers. My God, it's horrible enough. |