Healey announced $1.2 million in state funds would be made available to Fall River to hire more emergency response personnel.

Following a meeting with Fall River officials, Healey said the state was releasing $1.2 million for more emergency response personnel.

Gov. Maura Healey met with city leaders late Tuesday morning and said her visit is to make sure state leaders know what the city needs moving forward and to talk about what the state is doing to ensure tragedies like this don’t happen again.