A bone shard, a molar, an artificial hip — the grim task of finding victims of Calif. fires
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - The Sonoma County Search and Rescue Team arrived Sunday on Dover Court around 2:30 p.m. The neighborhood was gone. There was nothing recognizable as a home, except the chimney, and the rough outlines of a foundation.
They had very little to go on. They knew her name was Mary. She was elderly. And she lived alone.
She had been missing for a week, ever since fire had roared through here, melting or incinerating virtually everything in its path.
Not a thing in this neighborhood was alive anymore.
A buzz filled the air. For a few minutes,
