A safety inspection company and the owner of a Massachusetts assisted-living facility that was the site of a fatal fire that killed 10 people are blaming each other for failing to address a faulty sprinkler system.

Inspector Fire Systems Inc. sued Gabriel House owner Dennis Etzkorn, claiming it notified the facility months before the fire about recalled sprinklers that needed to be replaced. Etzkorn filed a cross claim on Monday alleging that Fire Systems Inc. had failed for years to properly inspect and test the sprinklers at Gabriel House.

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Questions surfaced following a July 2025 fire about whether the facility's sprinkler system functioned properly. Fire Systems Inc. said in a statement that in September 2024 one of its inspectors “did identify fire sprinkler he

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