Victims ID'd in Massachusetts assisted living facility fire that killed 9, cause under investigation

Officials are continuing to investigate the cause of a fire at a Massachusetts assisted living facility that killed nine people and critically injured another.

Officials are continuing to investigate the cause of a fire at a Massachusetts assisted living facility that killed nine people and critically injured another.

Several of the people killed were identified Monday, including Rui Albernaz, 64; Ronald Codega, 61; Margaret Duddy, 69; Robert King, 78; Kim Mackin, 71; Richard Rochon, 78; and Eleanor Willett, 86.

The identities of a 70-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man were being withheld until their families could be notified, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

Holly Mallowes, Willett’s granddaughter, told NBC Boston that her grandmother “was the rock of the family.”

“We’re praying she went peacefully from the smoke,” she said. “That’s weighing on us. Was there any suffering?”