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.

Shirley Chambra was outside smoking a cigarette when she saw sparks and then flames at her home: the Gabriel House assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts.

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.

Elderly residents – some in wheelchairs and some dependent on oxygen tanks – were blinded by deadly smoke as they tried to escape an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, which caught fire Sunday evening.

The Westfield Fire Department will begin charging assisted living facilities fines for non-emergency 911 calls. The goal is to discourage misuse of emergency services and free up resources for actual emergencies.

The Massachusetts assisted-living facility that caught fire Sunday evening was slated to undergo a recertification and compliance review process later this year.

The mayor says the city is working on returning personal belongings, medication and keeping health at the forefront.

The family of one of the victims from the Fall River assisted living home fire is anxiously awaiting updates on their loved one.

A former employee said she never saw the staff perform fire drills. The local fire chief pushed back at claims that dispatching more firefighters would’ve saved more lives.

Debbie Johnson says she worked the third shift as a nursing assistant at Gabriel House in Fall River, Massachusetts. She claims only two inexperienced employees were on when a deadly fire broke out earlier this week.

A fire at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility killed nine and injured at least 30. A firefighters union said understaffing hindered the response and may have cost lives.