Court filings indicate that the Gabriel House assisted living facility had been notified about the building’s recalled sprinkler heads several months prior to the fire that killed 10 residents and injured dozens of others.

Fire Systems Inc. (FSI), the vendor hired by the Gabriel House to inspect the sprinkler system, filed a cross-claim Monday in response to a lawsuit naming both FSI and the Gabriel House as defendants. In its claim, FSI states that the assisted living facility had been warned about the faulty sprinklers 10 months before the deadly fire broke out.

In its complaint, FSI says it told the Gabriel House after a 2024 inspection that the sprinkler heads had been recalled back in 2001 and needed to be replaced because they “might not operate in the case of a fire.”

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