The state Executive Office of Elder Affairs cited the facility for seven deficiencies, four of which were repeat problems.

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 fire at Gabriel House assisted living in Fall River, Massachusetts, resulted in multiple deaths and injuries. City is responding and investigating.

An "extensive investigation" is underway in Fall River after a fire at an assisted living center claimed the lives of nine people.

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.

The names of seven of the nine people who died in the Fall River fire on July 13 have been released to the public.