For weeks at a time, assisted living residents in wheelchairs on the top level of Gabriel House couldn’t leave their floor, trapped by a broken elevator that management wasn’t in any hurry to fix. Because they couldn’t make it downstairs to the communal dining room,

The fire broke out the evening of July 13, trapping residents inside and forcing first responders to pull people through windows.

It’s very important in a crisis that people stay in contact,” Mayor Paul Coogan said in a wide-ranging interview from his office Friday.

Two funeral homes, and St. Mary's Cathedral, are assisting the families of loved ones killed in the Gabriel House fire.

The cause of the deadly fire at the Gabriel House assisted living home in Fall River, Massachusetts is still unknown.

A dancer who loved his community and the mother of a retired local police officer were just two of the nine killed in the Gabriel House assisted living fire on July 13. Obituaries and funeral plans for two of the victims were announced as of Friday, July 18.

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.

The family of a resident at the Gabriel House assisted living facility has retained a law firm to investigate the circumstances leading up to the deadly Sunday fire that killed nine people and left dozens injured.