Nine people died Sunday night after an assisted living facility caught fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said, with elderly people begging for help from first responders as smoke poured out of the building.

The Massachusetts assisted-living facility that caught fire Sunday evening was slated to undergo a recertification and compliance review process later this year.

Nine people died and dozens were hurt in a fire at an assisted-living residence in Massachusetts, and finger-pointing has already begun over whether there were enough firefighters to respond and whether staff at the facility did enough to help.