DISASTER MORTUARY SERVICE TEAMS (D-MORT)
Fatalities are natural results of major disasters and must be properly addressed in preplans and at the incident site or they may cause more problems than the actual disaster.
The Federal Response Plan recognizes this need and addresses under Emergency Support Function #8 the tasks of victim recovery and identification and mortuary service. Disaster Mortuary Service Teams (D-MORT) were initiated in 1990 under the auspices of the National Disaster Medical System. Every FEMA/HHS district has one of these teams, which have a basic response of 25 members. Team positions include medical examiner/coroners, forensic odontologists, anthropologists, latent print experts, security experts, funeral directors, critical incident stress debriefers, secretaries, and assistants; each position is reinforced by four.
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