Many people – selected leaders, and state officials and local explanations do to end a sound fire killing nine older residents.
Just showing the gabriel’s home scene isn’t enough, as did Gov. Maura Healey last week. Going to CNN, as Mayor Paul Cookycy did, not enough.
“A perfect investigation has been started,” Healey said in a statement. “I know that people in the fall of the river are strong and lived, and now the time we all gather together to rely on each other through this terrible tragedy.”
But Healey and Coogan administrations need to provide answers to some basic questions.
What is the plan to evacuate the facility? What is the staff? Does the fire control system work? Why do disabled people, in wheelchairs and oxygen masks, on the second and third floor? How do you allow this clear area to exist?
Why is the state more slow to release documents? Why does the fire marshal office – that Healey mentions all the questions – so quiet?
Don’t fit to know the fire base the buildings that are dangerous and do something about it?
Elizabeth Warren, who calls for better regulation of assisted living houses, should require answers, such as the rest of the state’s delegation and state lawmakers.
“There are serious problems going on for years,” Warren said to a hearing last year. Now it’s time for him and others to follow up with the action.
It is a preventive tragedy. Nine people don’t have to die in the terrible attempt to escape the Fall River aging facility. This place is a trap of fire. Simply say, people can’t get out.
Someone knows that there are 70 weak people living there – why no one says about the front of the fire?
There should be a serious response to these questions – not just scrambling to cover your butts and passing a single agency with no answers.
As usual when something like this happens, officials are in the bunker.
Why not the fire chief active to make sure people living there are safe? The simple question is: Why don’t you stop it?
The same goes for the mayor. How do you know this danger to public safety surrounding your city?
For Gov. Healey, why does it don’t work on fire fire? Why not help living facilities regulated properly, such as nursing homes? These areas operate like the wild west, unlike nursing houses.
It should be nothing less than reform reform from state and feds to withdraw terrible fire.
It’s time for a full review of the state and city complexity of it.
There must be anger, not just passing by the day from the city to declare at the Fire Marshal back to the city.
And increasing the staff level of fire – while ordered by Mayor Coogan on Wednesday – too late to save anyone at Gabriel’s house, even if it was necessary.
