Tenth Person Dies From Massachusetts Assisted-Living Fire
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Nearly 40 restaurants, including Christopher's — a Fall River restaurant owned by one of the organizers — are participating in a fundraiser Friday at St. John's Club in Fall River.
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
Investigators are looking into a number of issues including the possibility that the fire was caused by smoking near an oxygen tank.
The scene outside Gabriel House, the assisted living facility that saw a deadly fire over the weekend, was solemn Wednesday, as mourners placed flowers and lit candles, some praying, others standing silently, some imagining the scene over the weekend that left nine residents dead.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey praised first responders in Fall River for their “heroic” work in preventing an “unimaginable loss of life” in a fire at an assisted living facility on Sunday night.