LAHAINA >> The death toll for the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century has increased by one, to 99, after Maui County police found additional remains last week.

The remains were recovered on Oct. 12 in the Old Lahaina Courthouse, according to county officials. However they said at the time that they did not know if the remains were from someone who had previously been identified as a fire fatality.

An autopsy and forensic examination verified that they were not from a previously recovered individual, officials said today.

So far police have identified the remains of 97 people from the Aug. 8 fire that wiped out much of Lahaina, a historic town on Maui’s west coast. The remains of two people have yet to be identified.

The wildfire started in a grassy area in Lahaina’s hills. Powerful winds related to a hurricane passing to Hawaii’s south carried embers from house to house and hampered firefighting efforts. More than 2,000 buildings were destroyed, and about 8,000 people were forced to move to hotels and other temporary shelter.

Maui County officials today also released the updated MPD-FBI “credible list of unaccounted for/missing individuals” from the wildfire with the names of six people, down one from a week ago.

The first FBI-MPD unaccounted for list on Aug. 24 had 388 names. Since then, Maui police Chief John Pelletier has said only those people who have a formal missing persons report filed with MPD will be included on the list.

Today’s missing list was the ninth released since Aug. 24

Maui police says anyone with information that can help in finding unaccounted people should contact the FBI at 808-566-4300 or at www.fbi.gov/MauiFires. Today’s FBI-MPD list of six missing people is below with a reference ID number.

Reference #, Name

27911 Artur Babkov

27924 Lydia Coloma

27896 Paul Kaspryzycki

27899 Robert H. Owens

28837 Lee Rogo

27897 Elmer Lee Stevens