Fire engines or ladder trucks should be staffed with four members. In Massachusetts, the average is about two firefighters.

Investigators say a fire that killed 10 people at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility was likely caused by smoking or an ...

A short-staffed Fall River Fire Department struggled in the Gabriel House fire. But most Mass. fire departments are not staffed to proper standards.

Elderly residents – some in wheelchairs and some dependent on oxygen tanks – were blinded by deadly smoke as they tried to ...

The public is asked to join in on celebrating the life of one of the Gabriel House fire victim's on her birthday.

The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office released the previously withheld name of one of the 10 victims killed in the ...

One person was taken to a Massachusetts hospital Saturday during the emergency response to a fire in a waterfront home on the ...

The fire began in a resident’s room in an assisted living facility in Fall River, where investigators found an oxygen machine ...

The cause of a deadly fire​ at the Gabriel House assisted living home in Fall River, Massachusetts has been narrowed to two ...

The July 13 fire killed 10 people and injured at least 30. Its exact cause might never be determined, officials said.

The ceremony also honored the newly appointed fire prevention officer, Jeffrey Dalton, according to the announcement. He will conduct fire and life safety inspections, review building and site plans, ...

David Letterman slams CBS' decision to cancel 'The Late Show' as 'pure cowardice' ...