Communities across Massachusetts continue to lend their support to the people whose lives were changed forever by the Gabriel House fire in Fall River.

Sunday marks one week since a fire ripped through an assisted living facility in Fall River, killing ten residents.

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.

It’s very important in a crisis that people stay in contact,” Mayor Paul Coogan said in a wide-ranging interview from his office Friday.

The family of a resident at the Gabriel House assisted living facility has retained a law firm to investigate the circumstances leading up to the deadly Sunday fire that killed nine people and left dozens injured.

The nation's largest injury law firm announced Friday it was investigating the fatal fire in Fall River Sunday night.

Body-worn camera footage from Fall River police shows officers rescuing residents from the Gabriel House fire. Check it out.