The city is taking a significant step closer to meeting the national standard for firefighters working at a given time.

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.

South Coast Funeral Home is covering the cost of Richard Rochon’s services, and is also willing to do the same for other victims.

As state and local authorities probe Sunday's deadly fire at a Fall River assisted living facility, a firefighter’s union is already claiming a shortage of firefighters may have played a role in its devastation.

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

First responders rescued dozens of people from inside an assisted living facility where nine people were killed.