850 missing after Lahaina fire, mayor says
There are 850 names on the list of people still missing following the Lahaina wildfire, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen said.
"There is positive news in this number, because when this process began the missing person list contained over 2,000 names," Bissen said in a recorded video posted on social media on Sunday evening.
He said 114 people had been confirmed dead, of which 27 had been identified. Eleven families have been notified.
The latest figure for the missing is the result of a painstaking process undertaken by the FBI, he said. The bureau "combined and refined" the separate lists that had been collected by the American Red Cross, the FBI's Honolulu bureau, the Maui Police Department and the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
Since the lists were started, more than 1,285 people have been located, Bissen said.
"Our lives have changed forever and things will not be the same," Bissen said. "What will be the same is the way we care for each other as we grieve and go through this together."
-ABC News' Aliyah Thomas