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Hurricane Katrina kills 40,000????
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| jonSun |
Funeral director deploys to hurricane region
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
By Clint Confehr
A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there. "DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on standby. Their funeral home is one of several collection sites for donations to be taken to the Red Cross in Fayetteville on Wednesday for transfer to places in need.
The 40,000 estimate does "not include the number of disinterred remains that have been displaced from ... mausoleums," Buckner told the Times-Gazette Monday.
more here
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| St_Andrew |
| Doesn't sound that likely. Most ppl were evacuated, and it seems like a lot of those who stayed survived. That said the death toll will probably be high. |
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