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Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team
A Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team or DMORT is a team of experts in the fields of disaster victim identification and mortuary services.

DMORTs are activated in response to large scale disasters in the United States to assist in the identification of deceased individuals and storage of the bodies pending the bodies being claimed.

https://aspr.hhs.gov/NDMS/Pages/dmort.aspx

Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams in Action

https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/dmort-in-action-the-role-of-dmort-in-natural-disasters-pandemics-and-beyond.pdf

About Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams

https://aspr.hhs.gov/HawaiiWildfires/Documents/DMORT.pdf

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The Appalachian Channel with John Ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obeD0652tE0&t=11s