Quick action by staff at a Somerset, Massachusetts nursing home helped stop a fire from spreading overnight. The facility is not far from the Gabriel House, the Fall River assisted living facility where 10 people died in a fire last month.

Just after 3:30 a.m. Thursday, firefighters responded to the Somerset Ridge Center, a skilled nursing facility. No injuries were reported.

"They called me this morning, I'm sleeping, and they say your mother-in-law is fine, but the fire is just on the second floor," said Marie Thilus.

The fire at Somerset Ridge was confined to a second-floor community room, and staff helped tackle it before firefighters arrived.

"One of the aides came over and started yelling for help and said there was water everywhere, smoke everywhere," a nurse named Faith sai

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