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Commission members felt a heightened urgency to release thorough recommendations after 10 people died in an assisted living fire last week.
The cause of a deadly fire at the Gabriel House assisted living home in Fall River, Massachusetts has been narrowed to two possibilities.
The cause of the Gabriel House fire that killed 10 assisted living residentsin Fall River this month is officially “undetermined” because investigators cannot yet say whether the fatal fire was started by the electrical or mechanical failure of an oxygen machine in a resident’s room,
Rescuing residents of Gabriel House was difficult because of window AC units — often a violation of building code that's difficult to enforce.
The pair of press briefings comes as several key questions about the fire linger, including the its cause and when and where exactly it started inside the three-story complex.
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For weeks at a time, assisted living residents in wheelchairs on the top level of Gabriel House couldn’t leave their floor, trapped by a broken elevator that management wasn’t in any hurry to fix. Because they couldn’t make it downstairs to the communal dining room,
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is slated to meet with city officials and update the public about the response to an assisted living facility fire in Fall River that killed 10 people