The proprietor of the Gabriel Home in Fall River mentioned in a press release Friday that his focus stays on the households who misplaced family members in a hearth on the assisted residing facility.
“The last two weeks have been the most difficult I’ve ever known, not because of whatever I have experienced, but rather, because of the knowledge that ten families who were part of the Gabriel House community have suffered unimaginable pain and the ultimate loss,” mentioned proprietor Dennis Etzkorn.
A preliminary investigation reveals an oxygen tank malfunction or smoking might have induced the lethal Fall River assisted residing facility hearth that claimed the lives of 10 final week. They died of accidents attributable to the fireplace on the night time of Sunday, July 13, which was the deadliest hearth in Massachusetts in over 40 years. Over 30 residents had been injured within the blaze. Seventy occupants had been housed within the three-story facility.
“We are heartbroken for them,” Etzkorn instructed the Herald in a press release. “My sole considerations, and solely tasks, proceed to be serving to authorities decide all of the information and circumstances of this tragedy, in addition to establishing a system to assist these households get well their family members’ possessions.
“We anticipate that the return of personal possessions to family members will be completed by the end of next week,” he added. A”ll that issues proper now’s attending to the underside of why this occurred and serving to our residents’ family members on this darkest of instances. These twin duties will stay my solely priorities to the exclusion of all else.”
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