Second victim found in New Bedford rooming house fire; 24 residents displaced

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Some planned to build and support constellations of small, neighborhood-based care facilities, for example, but NIMBY politics intervened. The care facilities never got built, and some of society’s most vulnerable were stranded in rooming houses, which by then had come to be known as single-room occupancy hotels (SROs). Unfortunately, Vancouver’s real estate boom has caught up with many SROs. Real-estate investors snapped up dozens of the Downtown Eastside’s rooming houses in the latter half of the ‘00s, converting them to other uses.

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In May 2022, Arsenault resigned as sole trustee of the real estate firm, registered as “Royal Crown Realty Trust,” and made Kenneth Hoffman the trustee. Five people were transported to the hospital Tuesday for injuries and smoke inhalation. NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire that gutted a New Bedford rooming house Tuesday afternoon. The rooming-house-style building contained 31 apartments and around 24 occupants were rescued. A temporary shelter was set up at Seven Hills on Acushnet Avenue for victim services. Firefighters searched the building as conditions deteriorated, eventually finding Moreira.

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In 1909, San Francisco banned most cubicle-style hotels, which was a common form of cheap lodging for itinerant workers and others on very tight budgets. Had fire safety actually been the goal, the city would have demanded fire escapes, fire-slowing walls at certain intervals, and fire doors. Cubicles remained perfectly legal for offices and workshops across the city, but for sleeping? New Bedford firefighters rescued some and others jumped to escape a massive fire in a rooming house Tuesday night. The building was a 31-unit rooming house, with each unit locking individually and each floor sharing a common bathroom, according to residents.

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Firefighters remained on the scene throughout the rest of Tuesday and overnight to put out hot spots in the building. Third-floor resident Jason Gilmore said he was alerted by smoke alarms and faced fire and smoke when he tried to escape. Five people were initially taken to the hospital, and two people were listed in critical condition late Wednesday afternoon. "Electrical fires are the second-leading cause of residential fire deaths in Massachusetts," said State Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey.

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At least 1 killed, 2 unaccounted for in rooming house fire in New Bedford.

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But they were cheap, averaging just Cdn$12 a night, not much more (adjusted for inflation) than a rooming house cost a century ago. All residents of the four-story rooming house were displaced by the fire. On Friday, Quinn's office identified the second victim as Wayne Bourdon, 63.

I spent the night gasping for air while on my husband’s phone with my friends and family. Josh Amaral, New Bedford’s director of housing and community development, told 12 News the city is doing everything in its power to help those impacted by the fire. Matos said her fiancé has been having recurring nightmares of escaping the flames, adding that he did everything in his power to get as many tenants to safety as he could. Matos tells 12 News she was at work when the fire tore through the building, killing two tenants and injuring at least five others. More than two dozen tenants were displaced, including Matos and her fiancé.

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NEW BEDFORD — Firefighters discovered a second dead body Wednesday afternoon in the charred aftermath of a fire that ripped through a four-story rooming house in New Bedford’s North End. More than two dozen tenants lived in the rooming house, according to Kruger. The American Red Cross and Seven Hills Behavioral Health are assisting the displaced tenants. Fire investigators said the fire started in Room 205, located at the left rear of the second floor.

But as workers dug through the wreckage with heavy equipment, they found the body of a person, the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Emergency crews worked for over eight hours to put out hot spots in the building and said they will be on the scene throughout Tuesday night. Around 80 firefighters responded to the fire, with other local agencies coming to assist. Officers from multiple districts and Air1, the WPS’ helicopter, arrived on scene and found three suspects fleeing from the home, one of whom had a firearm. We know the fire began in our sunroom and quickly spread while my son, grandmother, husband and I were inside.

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An engine company remained on scene to standby while a demolition contractor removed the remaining collapsed portions of the building and secured the area. Shortly after a collapse zone was set up, the main building suffered a complete collapse, fire officials said. It was not clear how long the building had been under renovation or if it was close to being completed. The victim’s identity has not been released pending family notification, Wark said.

There are two people still “unaccounted for,” Kruger said Tuesday night. At least five residents were transported to the hospital for injuries. The fire was mostly knocked down by about 7 p.m., though firefighters remained on the scene after 9 p.m. On arrival, the Fire Department immediately dispatched four crews to search the building for residents, but had to pull the crews out as the fire quickly ripped through the roof and made the walls unstable. Dartmouth, Acushnet and Fairhaven fire departments provided mutual aid to assist with the fire.

The Fire Department was focused Wednesday on recovering any fatalities and quickly demolishing the unstable building. State police dogs worked the ground while drones hovered overhead to assist the demolition. To support The Salvation Army’s ongoing New Bedford fire response efforts, 100% of donations made at /eds with a note in comment section saying “New Bedford Fire” will go toward helping survivors. An official fund has been created to help the residents who lost so much. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.

But the private housing market could do much more to provide living spaces affordably if we discarded those requirements that merely protect others’ property values by making rooming houses and other simple housing options illegal. In the 1800s, boarding with families was commonplace for people of all ages. As many as half of urban Americans spent part of their lives either as boarders in others’ homes or as hosts of boarders in their own, as professor Groth details.

Crews responded from New Bedford and surrounding towns, including firefighters from Acushnet, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven at the scene and ambulances from Freetown, Lakeville, Marion, Wareham, and Westport. One of the people who died has been identified as Manuel Moreira, a 59-year-old who lived on the fourth floor, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday. When firefighters arrived, around eight to nine carports were fully engulfed, each containing many vehicles, officials said. Concentrated near downtowns, residential hotels provided quintessentially urban living. The dense mixture of accommodations with affordable eateries, laundries, billiard halls, saloons, and other retail establishments made life convenient on foot and on slim budgets.

"At the same time of arrival of crews, we were able to rescue, I believe five tenants over ground ladders while simultaneously getting lines in place and started to attack the fire," he said. “Our thoughts are still with the families who lost loved ones, the residents who were injured, and those who lost all their belongings,” said Chief Kruger in a statement. Fire crews say the carports and all of the vehicles housed inside are likely deemed a total loss. Amaral said the city has connected those impacted with local agencies to assist them in their search for a new place to live. Matos said she and her fiancé have been living in a hotel since the fire, thanks in part to the city which has supplied them with vouchers. Many thousands of such quarters once formed the foundation of affordable housing in Northwest cities.

A tightening net of ordinances and codes have helped squeeze rooming houses, and related housing choices, nearly to extinction. Fire crews reported seeing heavy smoke and flames and occupants hanging from the windows and jumping from the building to escape the danger inside. Mandatory off-street parking rules added insult to injury beginning in the middle of the 1900s.