Hawaii wildfires: K9 teams sift through ashes in desperate search for missing

Specialist search dogs have been brought in to carry out search operations in the Lahaina area of Hawaii devastated by wildfires.

The disaster is the deadliest US wildfire in over 100 years. The death toll is expected to rise over the coming days, officials have said as the true scale of casualties remains unclear.

Dogs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Urban Search and Rescue teams have now joined the harrowing searches for victims.

The dogs and their handlers have taken on the distressing job of searching through the ruins to identify human remains.