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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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