International Association of Fire Fighters General President Edward Kelly, standing with over 20 local and state firefighters in front of the ruins of the Gabriel House assisted living facility, said inadequate staffing on the Fall River Fire Department has cost people their lives.

Kelly, along with IAFF Local 1314 President Michael O’Reagan and others, held a press conference Monday afternoon stating that chronic understaffing of FRFD engine companies is a problem — and that the nine dead at Gabriel House are the result.

"My main concern here is with the guys here that had to experience this, the largest loss of life in Massachusetts in 40 years, and the families of the victims," Michael O'Reagan said.

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