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Governor Maura Healey announced new safety measures at assisted living homes that will be launched on Monday following the deadly fire in Fall River.
After 10 people died in an assisted living facility, IAFF officials said Fall River didn't have enough firefighters on duty.
When the deadly fire broke out Sunday night at Gabriel House in Fall River, Massachusetts, the assisted living facility had 70 residents and just two staff members working, according to the mayor and an employee.
A blaze at a Massachusetts assisted-living home Sunday killed a musician, a secretary, a veteran Army sharpshooter and six other people. Some in her family say Gabriel House wasn’t
The footage, released Thursday afternoon, shows Fall River police officers and firefighters alerting and rescuing residents from the assisted living facility.
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FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — A 10th person has died several days after a fire broke out at an assisted living facility in Fall River. The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said 66-year-old Brenda Cropper died from her injuries on Wednesday.
The 100-unit assisted-living facility that burned Sunday night, killing nine people so far, opened in 1999 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Some photos on its Facebook page show neat rooms but older-looking carpeting and furniture, and before the fire state inspectors had hit the facility with health and safety citations.