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“You may not have a dental record, but you may have a photo of your momma smiling, and that's helpful,”
Louis Cataldie
“It's going to take months, maybe years. This is not going away.”
Louis Cataldi
“A hurricane death is a death that would not have occurred had there not been a hurricane,”
“I don't think visual identification will be a possibility,”
“It's not about numbers. I don't know how high that's going to go, ... Each death is enough. This is horrific.”
“We were working for the living, and now we are working for the dead and the living. It's pretty tough, pulling out dead bodies.”
“I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.”
“I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately got their own helicopters to come in.”
“I'm assuming we'll find some up in the backwoods, pretty far from where they belong,”
“A lot of these folks have been casketed for a long time, so we've only got bones to deal with, ... Evidently, it's not mandatory to place identification inside the casket, which was news to me. That's not helping.”