A state report on the New Year’s Day fire in Holyoke reveals problems with a fire alarm system.

The apartment building fire left three dead, including a woman who jumped from a window. An investigation by the Massachusetts state fire marshal concludes the building’s fire alarm did go off, but the connection to an alarm monitoring company had actually failed two days earlier.

It’s unclear if lives would have been saved if the system were connected.

“I really don’t know the timeline between the time the fire first took hold of the building and activated the alarm system, and the arrival of the fire department; But I can say, I think comfortably, that the fire conditions may not have been as advanced as they were had the connection been intact,” said Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey.

Ostroskey says after the connection was first lost, the alarm monitoring company called the building’s property manager several times to alert them.

NEPR was unable to reach the building owner for comment.