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Changes are coming to the Fall River Fire Department following the fire at the Gabriel Assisted Living Facility that killed nine people on Sunday.
Police, fire, and EMS crews worked to rescue residents as smoke and flames spread through Gabriel House Assisted Living Facility in the heart of the city.
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.
The footage, released Thursday afternoon, shows Fall River police officers and firefighters alerting and rescuing residents from the assisted living facility.
The scene outside Gabriel House, the assisted living facility that saw a deadly fire over the weekend, was solemn Wednesday, as mourners placed flowers and lit candles, some praying, others standing silently, some imagining the scene over the weekend that left nine residents dead.
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Calls to 911 reporting a fire at an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, began coming in shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday, marking the start of a prolonged emergency response to rescue the roughly 70 people who lived there,
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Nine people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a fire at an assisted living facility in Fall River on Sunday night, officials said.
The Gabriel House assisted living facility did not perform fire drills or train workers in evacuation procedures and was also understaffed and poorly maintained, according to a current and former employee interviewed in the aftermath of the fatal fire there that killed nine residents.