While RCMP say that all families who have lost a loved one were notified by Friday evening, the work to determine who is who among the dead is still underway.
In the wake of Thursday’s fiery bus crash that killed 15 people just outside Carberry, Man.—mostly seniors from the town of Dauphin out for an excursion to the casino—lives no longer depend on the work of the experts tasked with piecing together the identities of the deceased.
Almost overnight his small town of tidy, tree-lined streets had become the epicentre of a national wave of grief. Here, there is a sense that the collision had taken out a devastating proportion of town elders who, although not yet individually named, represented collective leadership. Signs with #dauphinstrong were still popping up on roadsides.
“I have two sayings about mass disasters: haste makes waste; and on the job is not the place to get on-the-job training,” said Dr. Bob Wood, a dental consultant and former chief forensic odontologist with the Ontario Coroner’s Office. The identification would rely on fingerprints, dental records, surgical histories—like hip or knee replacements or medical prostheses-and DNA, Younes said.
Then, it is a job of trying to match the pre-death records to the recovered human remains—a task sometimes assigned to a separate “reconciliation team.” The intensity of the post-crash fire may have incinerated any wallets, purses, jewelry, tattoos, birthmarks or other easily evident personal markers.
“It’s terrible to have to wait. But the processes themselves they are not instantaneous processes,” she said.
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