There are between 600-1000 people missing in the Camp Fire.
It's been 8 days.
Let that sink in.
It's been 8 days.
Let that sink in.
If 1000 people were missing and presumed dead on the East Coast there'd be wall-to-wall coverage.
We can hope that some people may just not have connected with authorities and their families. But it's been eight days. Eight.
Forensic scientists have been giving interviews about how they're struggling to ID people because there's little left and also the dental records in area are often gone too.
"Around 500 specialists and more than 20 cadaver dogs are combing the incinerated hills and gullies of the wooded community for human remains." And yeah, there's chaos on the list. But still nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/…
Seems like federal and state authorities could be helping local officials sort through this list, which again, if East Coast media was covering the way they'd cover a plane that crashed into the Hudson where everyone survived, well...
The list of the missing in the #campfire has grown to 1,200.
