Seven months after the tragic Gabriel House assisted living fire claimed the lives of 10 residents, the city will move forward to implement one new safeguard precaution locally. A spate of other conditions intended to regulate the special sector that assisted living facilities occupy will be handed down by a state commission.

At the City Council Committee on Ordinances and Legislation's March 3 meeting, Fall River Fire Department Chief Jeffrey Bacon, joined Director of Inspectional Services Glenn Hathaway and the city’s legal counsel Alan Rumsey, concluded that the city was “preempted” by the Legislature when it came to imposing new regulations that could save lives of residents in assisted living facilities in the event of a fire.

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