Donovan Kutsenda, search team manager, walks with K-9 Dexter at the Nevada Task Force 1 warehouse in North Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. Kutsenda and a small team of other men, including two K-9s, are members of the Nevada Task Force 1 that is traveling to assist with search and rescue efforts for the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Fire Chief John Steinbeck addresses media at a press conference regarding the five-person Nevada Task Force 1 team that is traveling to assist with search and rescue efforts in the Maui, Hawaii wildfires, at their warehouse in North Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Fire Chief John Steinbeck addresses media next to Donovan Kutsenda, search team manager, and K-9 Dexter at a press conference regarding the five-person Nevada Task Force 1 team that is traveling to assist with search and rescue efforts in the Maui, Hawaii wildfires, at their warehouse in North Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. Kutsenda and Dexter are both on the team. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Firefighters Shaun Kossman, from left, Matt Connelly, Nathan Moore, and Ryan Simone go through gear at the Nevada Task Force 1 warehouse in North Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. The Nevada Task Force 1 is sending a five-person team to assist with search and rescue efforts for the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Flames from a wildfire burn in Kihei, Hawaii Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Thousands of residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years. (AP Photo/Ty O’Neil)
The Clark County Fire Department is sending two dogs to assist with searching for missing people in the Maui fires.
The dogs will be part of the five-person team from Nevada Task Force 1 that was to leave Thursday to assist with search and recovery efforts in Maui related to the destruction caused by wildfires.
The team, which includes emergency responders from local jurisdictions and two K-9s, is part of NV-TF1, Nevada’s only Urban Search and Rescue Team.
Fire Chief John Steinbeck said Thursday that the county received a request for help with recovering human remains. The Fire Department is sending two human remains dogs and one search specialist.
“They’re loading up as we speak,” he said around 10 a.m. Thursday.
As of Thursday morning, 36 people had died after a wildfire ripped through Lahaina. Another fire was threatening rural areas near Haleakala National Park and a third on the island was nearing the busy city of Kihei on Thursday morning.
