A former Gabriel House resident filed a lawsuit in Bristol County Superior Court after he was seriously injured in a fire that killed 10 people on July 13. Steven Oldrid lived at the Fall River assisted living facility prior to the fire. He was in a studio apartment when the fire started.

The owner of Gabriel House assisted living facility has defended its inspection record, saying sprinklers were tested just days before the fire.

The cause of the Gabriel House fire that killed 10 assisted living residentsin Fall River this month is officially “undetermined” because investigators cannot yet say whether the fatal fire was started by the electrical or mechanical failure of an oxygen machine in a resident’s room,

The pair of press briefings comes as several key questions about the fire linger, including the its cause and when and where exactly it started inside the three-story complex.

For weeks at a time, assisted living residents in wheelchairs on the top level of Gabriel House couldn’t leave their floor, trapped by a broken elevator that management wasn’t in any hurry to fix. Because they couldn’t make it downstairs to the communal dining room,

The state's deadliest blaze in more than four decades has highlighted the lack of regulations governing assisted-living facilities that often care for low-income or disabled residents.