Survivors speak after fatal Fall River assisted living facility fire

Dozens of survivors were taken from Sunday night s fire at Gabriel House an assisted living facility in Fall River to a temporary facility at St Anne s Hospital Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Fall River Mayor Paul Coogan visited the facility and toured it meeting with several of the people taken there Coogan says those taken there have had breakfast and a concern of several is to make sure they can receive any medication left at Gabriel House Selected medication left behind was exposed to smoke smoke that functionaries call a deadly force NEWS was able to speak with chosen of the survivors at the temporary facility It was crazy explained Robert Cavral who lived at Gabriel House I mean people running out everywhere people helping and trying to help but the first responders did an excellent job You ve gotta give them credit Did an excellent job getting people out pulling them out of windows I got up I opened my door smoke just threw me back into the room and I tried again to get out revealed Loraine Ferrara who lived at Gabriel House I was near the exit door but I couldn t reach the exit door The smoke and the sprinkler system was too much for me so I went into my bathroom I yelled out my window I yelled down help help to the fire department and a firefighter came up and carried me down the ladder I mean how sad explained Donna Murphy who lived at Gabriel House People on the third flood on that side didn t stand a chance And people on this side unless you really knew what time of day it was didn t stand a chance Nine people died in the fire A GoFundMe has been set up for the families of the casualties involved