Editor’s note: This story contains disturbing images of the Gabriel House post-fire. MassLive has made the editorial decision to publish these photos to show what can happen when fire sprinklers don’t work properly, as sources have said is the case with this fire.

The walls are blackened and blistering; appearing diseased and scaly.

Much of the contents of the modest room are unrecognizable. But there is a charcoaled box spring. The gaunt remnants of an oversized sofa chair. The handles of a walker are desiccated, and the top half of the bathroom door is missing.

Everything is pewter-colored.

It’s a haunting scene — the interior of the second-floor resident room where a fire ignited on the night of July 13 at the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River . That resident wa

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