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Not certain what to make of this — but it’s an interview with a local mortuary director in the Shelbyville (Tenn.) Times-Gazette. The mortician, Dan Buckner, is part of DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team), which is a volunteer wing of the Department of Homeland Security called in to set up morgues and process bodies in major domestic disasters. And he’s been deployed to Gulfport, Miss. Bucker tells the paper that “DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies.” And he goes on to say that that number does not “include the number of disinterred remains that have been displaced from … mausoleums.”

(ed.note: A note of thanks, if that’s the word, to TPM Reader EO for the sobering tip.)

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