Fall River police share body camera footage from deadly fire
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Some residents who survived Sunday's fire at the Gabriel House in Fall River are still hospitalized and in hotels. Here's the breakdown on Wednesday.
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.
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.
There’s no doubt in my mind that that fire was destined to kill 50-plus people,” Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said Wednesday.
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Dignity Alliance, an advocacy coalition, is calling on state legislators to ramp up assisted living laws based on forthcoming state report.
Investigators are looking into a number of issues including the possibility that the fire was caused by smoking near an oxygen tank.
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Questions about Gabriel House living conditions and emergency preparedness continue to swirl following Sunday’s deadly fire.
Authorities identified the victim as Brenda Cropper, 66. She had been hospitalized in critical condition since Sunday’s fire, which was the deadliest blaze in Massachusetts since 1984.
Jason Murphy has been anxiously trying to get his mother’s belongings from her room at the Gabriel House assisted living facility.