Elderly residents – some in wheelchairs and some dependent on oxygen tanks – were blinded by deadly smoke as they tried to escape an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, which caught fire Sunday evening.

Top Massachusetts officials are suggesting the state consider new ways to regulate and finance so-called affordable assisted living homes after the deadly fire Sunday night at the facility for seniors...

Whatever can be learned from this tragedy, from fire prevention to rescue perspectives, to enhance the safety of elderly and disabled residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities is of th...