Massachusetts, facility fire
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The deadly blaze was either started by a malfunctioning oxygen concentrator or smoking materials in a resident's room, authorities said.
The fire began in a resident’s room in an assisted living facility in Fall River, where investigators found an oxygen machine and “smoking materials.”
Smoking or oxygen machine issue may have sparked deadly fire at Massachusetts assisted-living facility, official says.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey pledged to deliver $1.2 million in state funding to provide Fall River with additional emergency personnel in the wake of the deadly July 13 Gabriel House fire.