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Video from police body cameras shows officers entering the building during the fire and assisting with the rescues of residents. (The Fall River Police Department edited this footage.)
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.
River police released body camera video showing heroic rescue efforts by officers in the deadly Gabriel House assisted living home fire.
1don MSN
Questions about Gabriel House living conditions and emergency preparedness continue to swirl following Sunday’s deadly fire.
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.
1don MSN
The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing requirements that are commonplace in nursing homes.