There’s no doubt in my mind that that fire was destined to kill 50-plus people,” Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said Wednesday.

River's building department released certificates of inspection Tuesday for Gabriel House, the assisted living facility where nine people died in a fire Sunday night. The reports do not detail any of the conditions inside the complex,

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.