It was 9:45 p.m. on July 13 when Father Michael Racine’s phone rang. It was Richard Aguiar, director of the Fall River Emergency Management Agency.

Aguiar told him the situation at the Gabriel House assisted living facility was dire.

“He basically told me that they already had two fatalities that they knew about and to get down there as quickly as possible,” Racine recalled.

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