Mayor Paul Coogan said Fall River was hit with “a real big sucker punch” with Monday’s blizzard, which covered the region in about three feet of snow.

Standing alongside members of the National Guard, staff from the Department of Transportation and Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll in the city’s Emergency Operations Center, Coogan said their help has been invaluable in getting city streets cleared.

“They picked us up off the mat and they gave us the support we needed,” Coogan said.

The devastating snowstorm on Monday left Fall River’s 1,000-plus streets unpassable, leaving tens of thousands of residents stuck in their homes behind waist-deep snow. After focusing on main arteries on Tuesday, side streets were next in line.

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