California investigators to use war zone DNA analysis technique to identify boat fire victims

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California emergency workers were using a DNA analysis technique primarily emplo...

- California emergency workers were using a DNA analysis technique primarily employed in war zones and crime scenes to quickly identify the badly-burned remains of 34 people killed when a fast-moving fire trapped them on a scuba diving boat.

A fire broke out on the 75-foot vessel before dawn off Santa Cruz Island on Monday, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a news conference on Tuesday. The same DNA analysis tool, Brown said, was instrumental in identifying victims in the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in state history that killed at least 85 people about 175 miles northeast of San Francisco in 2018.

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