{"id":13285,"date":"2025-07-14T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:56:08","slug":"9-dead-30-injured-in-fire-at-massachusetts-assisted-living-facility-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=13285","title":{"rendered":"9 dead, 30 injured in fire at Massachusetts assisted-living facility, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Nine people were killed and dozens of others were injured as a fire tore through an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, late on Sunday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At least 30 people, including five firefighters, were transported to local hospitals after the five-alarm blaze, Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This is an unfathomable tragedy for the families involved and the Fall River community,&#8221; Bacon said in an earlier statement. &#8220;On behalf of the Fall River Fire Department, I want to express our heartfelt condolences to the loved ones who are grieving this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters responded to a report of a blaze at the Gabriel House assisted-living facility at about 9:50 p.m. on Sunday night, officials said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The fire went to five alarms, drawing about 50 firefighters to the scene, including about 30 who were off-duty,&#8221; the press release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The injured were in &#8220;various conditions,&#8221; officials said in a press release. The five firefighters were transported to hospitals with injuries that were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">ABC News&#8217; Jessica Gorman and Michael Kreisel contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people were killed and dozens of others were injured as a fire tore through an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, late on Sunday night, officials said. At least 30 people, including five firefighters, were transported to local hospitals after the five-alarm blaze, Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon told reporters on Monday. &#8220;This is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13287,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions\/13287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}