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In Fall River, a hellish nightmare of a fire

Visibility was near zero as smoke rapidly filled Gabriel House, an assisted living facility with 69 residents. People were ...

Gabriel House fire in Fall River, Massachusetts may have been caused by smoking or oxygen device failure

The cause of a deadly fire​ at the Gabriel House assisted living home in Fall River, Massachusetts has been narrowed to two ...

Fall River fire chaplain recounts Gabriel House tragedy: ‘Nobody was prepared for this’

It was Richard Aguiar, director of the Fall River Emergency Management Agency. Aguiar told him the situation at the Gabriel ...
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Gabriel House sued: What a Fall River man hurt in fire claims was wrong with facility

A Fall River man who lived in Gabriel House assisted living and was seriously injured in the deadly fire has filed a lawsuit.

Community gathers to support survivors of Gabriel House fire in Fall River

Hundreds of people waited in line for hours on Friday night for the chance to support survivors of the Gabriel House fire in ...

'It was chaos.' Firefighters who battled deadly Fall River blaze share stories of survival

Less than two weeks after the fire that killed 10 residents of a Massachusetts assisted living facility, the Fall River ...

Gabriel House fire timeline: Inside the race to save lives in a historic tragedy

It took six minutes from the time a box alarm went off inside the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River for ...

‘A family, dysfunctional, but a family’ Fall River fire survivors process the tragedy, as their next steps remain uncertain

Survivors who made it out of the assisted living facility the night of July 13 are now scattered across the Fall River area ...