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At a press conference Tuesday, July 15, outside FRFD headquarters, Bacon said the city has typically relied on overtime for ...
After a devastating fire at an assisted living facility on Oliver Street, Fall River residents are mourning the dead and ...
Cockroaches, mice and beds without sheets were normal at Gabriel House in Fall River, a resident said a day after the deadly ...
River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon deferred all questions about the fire investigation to the Massachusetts Department of Fire ...
WBZ-TV 's I-Team has found Dennis Etzkorn, the owner of Gabriel House in Fall River, has legal controversies in his past.
Gabriel House was an assisted living residence, according to the state of Massachusetts. Here's how the state defines that ...
The owner of an assisted-living facility in Fall River where nine died in a fire also owns an adult foster care business in ...
River firefighters arrived at the scene Sunday to find some of the trapped residents screaming for help out of the windows.
Residents of the home have called the fire "not just a tragedy, it’s a travesty" and have pointed to numerous safety problems at Gabriel House, including staffing, concerns about elevators, lack of ...
Assisted living residences are allowed to come up with their own plans for staffing, the state only requires it be reasonable to address the needs of residents. In the case of Gabriel House, the last ...
You could have had 100 firefighters show up on that scene and it wouldn’t have been enough,” Jeffrey Bacon said at a news ...
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 ...