Navy divers are searching for victims in Maui after deadly wildfire
By Diana Stancy Correll
Aug 25, 04:41 PM
A team of Navy divers is assisting with the relief efforts in Maui as the island recovers from massive, deadly wildfires.
The three-person mobile diving salvage unit from U.S. Pacific Fleet, which arrived this week just 24 hours after the Maui Fire Department requested them, are searching for remains and conducting underwater surveying for salvage operations in Lahaina Harbor, according to Army Col. David Fielder, the Joint Task Force 5-0 deputy commander.
“They provide an expeditionary and deployable diving and salvage operation for the harbor here and the waterway,” Fielder told reporters Thursday.
The divers are among the more than 600 Defense Department personnel and Coast Guardsmen working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state of Hawaii in response to the wildfires.
JTF 5-0 continues to maintain traffic-control points and conduct 24-hour security operations in Lahaina in coordination with local law enforcement.
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