An early morning fire took the lives of four residents with developmental disabilities at the Riverview state-run home in the southern Adirondacks.
They are: 52-year-old Anthony Vitti, 60-year-old Theresa Williams, 43-year-old Gloria Bonilla, and 32-year-old Corey Desotelle.
Five of the home's nine residents survived. One, 71-year-old Blaine Edwards, is being treated at a Utica hospital. The other four were relocated to another home. The two staff members also survived.
According to the article, five of the nine residents were plaintiffs in NYCLU's landmark class action suit over inhumane conditions at Willowbrook State School in 1972.
An investigation of the fire was called for by NYCLU "claiming a sprinkler system was knocked out immediately - possibly because a generator was too small."
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