diff --git a/backend/src/data/eventData.ts b/backend/src/data/eventData.ts
index b188863..0ca44a8 100644
--- a/backend/src/data/eventData.ts
+++ b/backend/src/data/eventData.ts
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ export async function fetchEvents() {
     `https://graph.facebook.com/${FB_API_VERSION}/${process.env.FB_EVENT_PAGE_ID}/events?access_token=${process.env.FB_ACCESS_TOKEN}&fields=id,name,cover,place,start_time,end_time`
   );
 
-  if (!response || response.type === ResultType.Err) {
-    console.log(`No events found...\n${response}`);
-    return [];
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    throw new Error(JSON.stringify(response.json()));
+
   }
   const res: FacebookEventsResponse = await response.json();
 
@@ -85,22 +85,17 @@ export async function fetchEvent(id: string) {
     `https://graph.facebook.com/${FB_API_VERSION}/${id}?access_token=${process.env.FB_ACCESS_TOKEN}&fields=id,name,cover,place,start_time,end_time`
   );
 
-  const res: Result<FacebookEvent, FacebookError> = await response.json();
-
-  if (!res || res.type === ResultType.Err) {
-    throw new Error(
-      `Couldn't fetch details for event ${id}\n${inspect(
-        Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(res, "error")?.value
-      )}`
-    );
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    throw new Error(`Couldn't fetch details for event ${id}\n${JSON.stringify(response.json())}`);
   }
+  const res: FacebookEvent = await response.json();
 
   return new EventInfo(
-    res.value.id,
-    res.value.name,
-    res.value.start_time,
-    res.value.end_time,
-    res.value.place?.name ?? DEFAULT_EVENT_LOCATION,
-    res.value.cover?.source ?? DEFAULT_EVENT_IMAGE
+    res.id,
+    res.name,
+    res.start_time,
+    res.end_time,
+    res.place?.name ?? DEFAULT_EVENT_LOCATION,
+    res.cover?.source ?? DEFAULT_EVENT_IMAGE
   );
 }
diff --git a/backend/src/index.ts b/backend/src/index.ts
index e3a7ae2..fd9c8bd 100644
--- a/backend/src/index.ts
+++ b/backend/src/index.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dotenv.config();
 (async () => {
   try {
     const events = await fetchEvents();
-    eventInfoMutex.runExclusive(() => eventInfo.concat(events));
+    eventInfoMutex.runExclusive(() => eventInfo.push(...events));
     console.log("Events fetched successfully");
   } catch (error) {
     // do we ungracefully bail out here???