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 Gabriel House assisted living facility did not perform fire drills or train workers in evacuation procedures and was also understaffed and poorly maintained, according to a current and former employee interviewed in the aftermath of the fatal fire there that killed nine residents.