Fire at Massachusetts assisted-living home kills 9
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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.
The city of Fall River is still looking for answers after nine people were killed in a fire at an assisted living center. The fire happened Sunday night at the Gabriel House Assisted Living Facility on Oliver Street.
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.
River fire chief gave a harrowing recount of the night nine people were killed in a fire at the Gabriel House.