The city is taking a significant step closer to meeting the national standard for firefighters working at a given time.

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.

Questions about Gabriel House living conditions and emergency preparedness continue to swirl following Sunday’s deadly fire.

As state and local authorities probe Sunday's deadly fire at a Fall River assisted living facility, a firefighter’s union is already claiming a shortage of firefighters may have played a role in its devastation.

First responders rescued dozens of people from inside an assisted living facility where nine people were killed.

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.