PORTLAND — Nearly 200 people gathered in Portland’s Longfellow Park on Tuesday night for a vigil to remember the six people who died this month just a short walk away in what was Maine’s deadliest fire in four decades.

The 20-24 Noyes St. blaze has tested the city on multiple levels. In addition to the emotional toll the tragedy took on survivors, neighbors and first responders, the incident also stoked criticism the city’s building inspections team is understaffed and working with outdated procedures.

Investigators have yet to publicly declare the cause of the blaze, which was reported just after 7 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, the morning after residents at the two-unit, 94-year-old home reportedly held a Halloween party.

The victims of the fire have been identified as tenants David Bragdon Jr., 27, Ashley Thomas, 29, and Nicole Finlay, 26, as well as visitors to the building Christopher Conlee, 25, of Portland and Maelisha Jackson, 23, of Topsham.

A sixth victim, 29-year-old Steven Summers of Rockland, leapt from the upper floors of the 94-year-old building to escape. He was hospitalized with severe burns and died from his injuries three days later.

Seven others who were at the house when the fire broke out escaped.

Allen Ewing-Merrill, co-pastor of the United Methodist Church HopeGateWay, said Tuesday he knows one of the survivors. About 30 people gathered at HopeGateWay late Tuesday afternoon to decorate prayer or hope flags before walking to the nearby park for the evening vigil.

“Our window looks right out onto that house, and it’s pretty horrifying to think about what happened there and the people who didn’t get out,” Ewing-Merrill said. “But I also believe in the triumph of light over the darkness and the triumph of hope over despair.”

Portland police Officer Alissa Poisson was one of the public safety personnel who to went to the fire scene Nov. 1. She joined with others at HopeGateWay to paint a prayer flag.

“The amount of loss in just a matter of minutes really had an impact on the officers and responders who were at the scene,” she said. “We’re trying to be there for each other. It’s more loss than we’re used to in just a moment’s time.”

Carol Schiller, head of the area’s University Neighborhood Organization, called the tragedy “a profound loss for all of us.”

“I enjoyed seeing Ashley and Nikki and their little dog, Daisy, in the park,” she said during the Tuesday night vigil. “They brought vibrancy to our neighborhood.”

Luminary votive bags lined the perimeter of the park and speakers at the vigil lit seven candles representing love, joy, memories, tears, hope, peace and strength. Laurie Whittemore, local volunteer chaplain for the American Red Cross, read the names of the victims, each one punctuated by a gong.

In the aftermath of the fire, the city of Portland announced the establishment of a task force to review staffing levels and inspection processes. The announcement came Friday, when the city released a record of multiple complaints against the 20-24 Noyes St. building, specifically 16 in the last 11 years, including several by neighbors concerned about accumulations of “trash and combustibles” around the property.

A 2013 consultant’s review of the Portland Fire Department recommended the city have 10 full-time inspectors to keep up with annual fire code inspections for the nearly 5,000 business and apartment buildings that should have them. Portland’s Inspections Division includes just four inspectors, only one of whom is designated to respond to complaints like those lodged against 20-24 Noyes St. and conducted 850 such inspections last year.