When the deadly fire broke out Sunday night at Gabriel House in Fall River, Massachusetts, the assisted living facility had 70 residents and just two staff members working, according to the mayor and an employee.

The mayor says the city is working on returning personal belongings, medication and keeping health at the forefront.

A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more than two dozen health and safety incidents. That's according

Heartbreak and questions still linger in Fall River after a fire tore through an assisted living facility on Sunday, killing nine people.

A five-year resident of the Gabriel House in Fall River, Donna Murphy, told NBC 10 that for the first time in five years, she didn't sleep at home.

You could have had 100 firefighters show up on that scene and it wouldn’t have been enough,” the fire chief said at a news briefing outside the fire department’s headquarters Tuesday.