9 dead in fire at Massachusetts assisted-living facility
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First responders rescued dozens of people from inside an assisted living facility where nine people were killed.
Nine people were killed and one was critically injured in an assisted living home fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, authorities said. Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon called the fire at Gabriel House "an unfathomable tragedy.
A fire at Gabriel House assisted living in Fall River, Massachusetts, resulted in multiple deaths and injuries. City is responding and investigating.
The state Executive Office of Elder Affairs cited the facility for seven deficiencies, four of which were repeat problems.
You could have had 100 firefighters show up on that scene and it wouldn’t have been enough,” Jeffrey Bacon said at a news briefing outside the fire department’s headquarters Tuesday.
The names of seven of the nine people who died in the Fall River fire on July 13 have been released to the public.
A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more than two dozen health and safety incidents, according to