Dutch group to fly in temporary mass mortuary

According to this source, US authorities have contracted De Boer, a Dutch company that is the world’s biggest supplier of temporary accommodation, to fly in a temporary mass mortuary to the New Orleans area.

The temporary morgue is capable of holding 10,000 bodies, but FEMA has told De Boer to be ready to increase its capacity to accommodate more fatalities, according to Koos Tesselaar, the company chairman.

“We have been talking to the US authorities daily. It started with [an order for] a much smaller facility, two days after the event, for 500 bodies, and it was scaled up to 10,000 now,” Mr Tesselaar said. “My feeling is that there might be more needed soon. That is the impression I get from the discussions we have had. They have indicated that we should be prepared to offer more.”