{"id":345,"date":"2012-05-25T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2012-05-25T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:29:30","slug":"japanese-tsunami-victim-identification-does-it-make-sense-to-develop-a-data-base-now-of-missing-persons-to-use-in-matching-with-any-human-remains-discovered-in-washed-ashore-tsunami-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/japanese-tsunami-victim-identification-does-it-make-sense-to-develop-a-data-base-now-of-missing-persons-to-use-in-matching-with-any-human-remains-discovered-in-washed-ashore-tsunami-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Tsunami Victim Identification – Does it make sense to develop a data base now of missing persons to use in matching with any human remains discovered in washed ashore tsunami debris?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over three thousand people remain missing, many of them children after the devastating tsunami in March of 2011.\u00a0 Debris which floats close to the surface and has been pushed by the wind has been coming ashore off the West Coast of the United States and Canada, including Sovereign Native American Tribes and Inuit in Canada.<\/p>\n

It should not be surprising that small pieces of human remains will be found in the later debris fields coming ashore in increasing amounts, for example, bones or tissue inside of waterlogged tennis shoes<\/a> which will float, but not move as rapidly as the current make up of items.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be wise to work with our Japanese partners now to develop a DNA data base and library of photos or descriptions of shoes the victims were last wearing?\u00a0 It also makes sense law enforcement, medical examiners offices and coroners should develop a clear consistent protocol on how these can be handled to assist Japanese authorities and family members find some closure.<\/p>\n

Our Federal agencies have been far too slow in planning to deal with the tons of debris that has been heading towards our shores for over a year.\u00a0 Little time is left to prepare for this critical task, without it becoming a case by case circus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over three thousand people remain missing, many of them children after the devastating tsunami in March of 2011.\u00a0 Debris which floats close to the surface and has been pushed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,28,29,33,34,36,56,84,102],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster-response","tag-disasters","tag-earthquake","tag-elected-officials","tag-emergency-management","tag-incident-response","tag-public-safety","tag-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}