River firefighters arrived at the scene Sunday to find some of the trapped residents screaming for help out of the windows.

Nine people were killed and one was critically injured in an assisted living home fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, authorities said. Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon called the fire at Gabriel House "an unfathomable tragedy.

The owner was indicted in 2012 in an alleged kickback scheme, but the charges were dropped after judges ruled investigators obtained key records illegally, records show.