Elderly residents – some in wheelchairs and some dependent on oxygen tanks – were blinded by deadly smoke as they tried to escape an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, which caught fire Sunday evening.

A 10th person has died several days after a fire broke out at an assisted living facility in Fall River. Rip currents are responsible for the majority of surf-zone fatalities every year in the U.S. A former Major League Baseball player died Sunday while trying to save swimmers from a rip tide off the coast of South Carolina, authorities said.

Brenda Cropper, 66, had been hospitalized in critical condition following Sunday’s five-alarm blaze. The post 10th person dies in Fall River assisted living facility fire, DA says appeared first on Boston.