Fall River fire chief: State investigators leading probe; seven residents remain at Tamayo Center

Fall River's fire chief said state investigators are leading the probe into a fire that killed residents at the Tamayo Center and that seven residents remain at the facility awaiting transfer to other care sites.

The chief told reporters the department is working with the Massachusetts State Fire Marshal's Office and the district attorney's office on the investigation and asked media to contact Jake Wark, public information officer for the Department of Fire Services, for details on cause and origin. "There's not a lot of new information to report," the chief said, adding that the state-level partners "are the most appropriate agency to release that information." The chief provided Wark's email as jake.wark@mass.gov.

The chief said the Tamayo Center had seven residents still on site "today" who were awaiting approval to transfer to other local facilities and that victims remained hospitalized; he said the number of hospitalized victims was "not specified." He said the department had forwarded three years of inspectional…