Fall River, Massachusetts
Digest more
The preventable tragedy at Gabriel House demonstrates the potential suffering posed to vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly, by the savage cuts to social programs in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” relied upon by millions.
A funeral home in Fall River is offering free funeral and cremation services to families who lost someone in a deadly fire that tore through an assisted living facility, killing 10.
River called mutual aid during the Gabriel House fire when firefighters were overwhelmed. But they covered stations, not the fire. Here's why.
Other records released by Fall River on Thursday also indicate the Gabriel House had problems with cockroaches and bedbugs, which Johnson also mentioned when she spoke with reporters earlier this week. "Bedbugs, cockroaches, mice, broken elevators, disgusting food. And that's all the God's honest truth," she said.
You could have had 100 firefighters show up on that scene and it wouldn’t have been enough,” the fire chief said at a news briefing outside the fire department’s headquarters Tuesday.
2don MSN
Questions about Gabriel House living conditions and emergency preparedness continue to swirl following Sunday’s deadly fire.
Jason Murphy has been anxiously trying to get his mother’s belongings from her room at the Gabriel House assisted living facility.
The Fall River mayor’s office has confirmed all Gabriel House residents displaced by the tragic Sunday fire that claimed nine lives now have new living arrangements.