New Fresno-based training teaches first responders to find human remains after wildfires

FRESNO, Calif. — On a recent morning, Fresno County Deputy Coroner Bianca Torres was kneeling at the base of a burned up car. Nearby was a grisly sight: a skeleton found in the driver’s seat – but not the whole skeleton.

“Because that person was seated there in the driver’s seat, we know that we’re missing pieces,” she said – specifically, missing bones.

She was looking for bone fragments with a team of professionals including a firefighter, an arson investigator, a forensic anthropologist and a homicide detective…

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