Hawaii's governor said there was hope for significant progress in narrowing down the list of those missing after the fires.
Officials in Hawaii announced on Friday that they had identified another victim of the wildfires on Maui, further reducing the number of those formally missing.
On Friday, according to Maui Police Department tracking, there had been 115 fatalities as a result of the fires.
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