Maui police and the FBI have named 388 people who find themselves nonetheless lacking practically three weeks after the lethal wildfires that destroyed the city of Lahaina.

The FBI compiled and validated the listing after receiving the lacking people’ first and final names from somebody with a verified contact quantity, in accordance with a Maui County assertion issued late Thursday.

Maui County known as on the general public to contact the FBI as quickly as attainable if they will verify that any of the folks listed as lacking are actually secure. 

The listing may be considered on Maui County’s web site. The FBI may be reached at (808) 566-4300 or HN-COMMAND-POST@ic.fbi.gov. 

The names had been launched on the identical day Maui County sued the utility firm Hawaiian Electrical for damages over its alleged position in triggering the wildfires.

The lawsuit alleges that Hawaiian Electrical was negligent when it didn’t shut the ability off regardless of warnings from the Nationwide Climate Service that top winds and drought circumstances created a excessive hearth danger.

Maui County accused the corporate of failing to correctly keep its utility poles. The county mentioned wooden poles owned by the corporate had been severely broken from superior decay, growing the chance that they might topple through the winds and trigger a fireplace.

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier mentioned the county understands releasing the names will trigger ache for the households of those that are lacking, however authorities are decided to conduct as thorough of an investigation as attainable.

The FBI and Maui police have confirmed that greater than 1,700 folks initially listed as lacking after the wildfires are secure and accounted for. 

No less than 115 individuals are confirmed to have perished within the blaze. The Maui wildfires are the deadliest within the U.S. in additional than a century and the worst catastrophe in Hawaii state historical past.

Pelletier mentioned earlier this week he can’t assure that the stays of everybody who died shall be discovered. 

The police chief in contrast the search by means of the ruins of Lahaina to the restoration operations at floor zero in New York Metropolis after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults on the World Commerce Heart.

“Realistically, let’s be trustworthy right here, we’re going to have quite a lot of confirmed, we’re going to have quite a lot of presumed,” Pelletier mentioned at a press convention Tuesday. “I do not need that quantity now. We’re going to work diligently to get that. It might take some time.”

“2,000 folks on 9/11 weren’t recovered. We do not have that sort of devastation with the towers like we noticed there, however we now have a whole city that’s destroyed,” Pelletier mentioned.