article_snippet: Remains sifted out of the ground zero rubble during the original recovery efforts following the September 11 attacks have been identified as those of a 26-year-old New Jersey man.
article_snippet: Matthew David Yarnell, dubbed a 'merry prankster' in an obituary that appeared in the New York Times, became the 1,640th victim identified from among the debris thanks to DNA testing, NBC New York reports.
article_snippet: The remains of Matthew David Yarnell have been identified from the original debris found at ground zero following the September 11 attacks .
article_snippet: Yarnell became victim number 1,640 identified from the debris.
highlights_snippet: The Kinnelon native's remains were tested from those sifted from the original ground zero recovery .
  
highlights_snippet: Matthew David Yarnell becomes the 1,640th victim positively identified from the rubble.  