estimated 40,000 dead from hurricane Katrina! that's almos..

http://www.t-g.com/story/1116806.html
quote:

"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."





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http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/undertakers-warned-of-40000-dead/2.../09/07/ warned of 40,000 deadBy Gerard WrightLos AngelesSeptember 8, 2005HURRICANE Katrina may have claimed as many as 40,000 lives.___________________________________________http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001055559 Mortuary Director Tells Local Paper 40,000 Could Be Lost in HurricaneBy E&P StaffPublished: September 06, 2005 9:30 PM ETNEW YORK In a profoundly troubling article in the Shelbyville (Tenn.)Times-Gazette today by Clint Confehr, a co-owner of a local mortuaryrevealed that he had been asked to join in recovering bodies lost in theGulf Coast hurricane and had been told "to expect up to 40,000 bodies" intotal.Dan Hicks is co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel and has beendeployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery. His partner, DanBuckner, told the paper, "DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000bodies," quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational ResponseTeam (DMORT), a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.Their funeral home is one of several collection sites for donations to betaken to the Red Cross in Fayetteville on Wednesday for transfer to placesin need.The 40,000 estimate does "not include the number of disinterred remains thathave been displaced from ... mausoleums," Buckner grimly told theTimes-Gazette Monday.____________alsohttp://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001804.htmhttp://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/publish/recovery_060905_8812.shtml