Questions about Gabriel House living conditions and emergency preparedness continue to swirl amid the ongoing investigation into Sunday’s deadly fire. The post Fall River fire: Assisted living facility’s track record,

You could have had 100 firefighters show up on that scene and it wouldn’t have been enough,” Jeffrey Bacon said at a news briefing outside the fire department’s headquarters Tuesday.

A Sunday night fire at an assisted living facility in Fall River that took the lives of nine residents has left the dozens of the home’s surviving residents in need of basic essentials.