Here's how often Taunton inspects its nursing homes and assisted living facilities and what they have to do to meet fire safety standards.

Following a fatal fire in a Fall River assisted living facility, Taunton officials are increasing outreach to similar facilities in their city. Taunton fire and emergency management personnel will ...

Days after a fire that killed nine people at a Fall River assisted living facility, city officials said on Wednesday they plan to increase fire department staffing. Fall River’s Mayor Paul Coogan said ...

Fall River will hire up to 20 more firefighters and offer more overtime to increase the number of crew members working each shift following this week's deadly fire at an assisted living facility.

A Fall River firefighter who responded to the deadly fire at an assisted living center Sunday night is describing the scene first responders arrived to as they worked to save lives.

Five more patients who died in the Gabriel House fire in Fall River, Mass. may have lived if the local fire department were fully staffed.

Fall River firefighters say that inadequate staffing in the fire department cost people their lives at the Gabriel House assisted living facility fire that killed nine on July 13.

Residents displaced by a fire at Gabriel House in Fall River are transitioning to new placements as questions about accountability and fire department staffing emerge.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people and trapping residents inside, including some who leaned out of windows and ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people and trapping residents inside, including some who leaned out of windows and ...

A deadly fire tore through an assisted living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, Sunday night.

FALL RIVER, Mass. — Family members described a chaotic scene with residents screaming for help as firefighters battled a fire at an assisted living complex in Fall River, Massachusetts, that ...