{"id":1805,"date":"2005-09-06T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2005-09-06T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T14:20:33","slug":"homeland-security-tells-mortician-expect-up-to-40000-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security tells Mortician: &#8216;Expect Up to 40,000 Bodies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-g.com\/story\/1116806.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t-g.com\/photos\/10\/43\/49\/1043496-S.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-g.com\/story\/1116806.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Shelbyville Times-Gazette is now reporting:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies<\/b>,&#8221; Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Until they search each and every remaining house and remove all the fallen materials &#8230; they will not know how many people are there,&#8221; Buckner said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;<b>My personal opinion is they will be recovering bodies for 30 &#8230; to 120 days<\/b>,&#8221; Buckner said.\n<\/div>\n<p>We pray that this number is the &#8220;worst case scenario&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards The Shelbyville Times-Gazette is now reporting: A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there. &#8220;DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies,&#8221; Dan Buckner said, quoting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}