Overview
- The five-alarm fire that began at 9:50 p.m. Sunday at Gabriel House was fully extinguished by early Monday morning
- Emergency crews confirmed nine resident fatalities and treated 30 people for injuries, including five firefighters who have since been released
- Fall River Police and Fire Department personnel carried about a dozen non-ambulatory residents to safety and evacuated dozens more
- City officials set up a family reunification center at St. Anne’s Hospital chapel and temporary shelters to house displaced seniors
- A joint probe by the Fall River Fire Department, State Fire Marshal’s office, police and the Bristol County district attorney’s unit is under way to determine the blaze’s origin