A 7-year-old girl was killed in a house fire on Staten Island, making New Year's Day a tragic one, according to police and fire officials.
The fire broke out just after 5:30 p.m. inside a two-story home at 110 Brookside Avenue in the Castleton Corners neighborhood.
Video taken on scene Firefighters can be seen crawling out of the second-floor windows of a house decorated with Christmas lights as thick smoke billows.
According to the NYPD, the girl was rescued from her home and rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead an hour after the fire broke out.
There were no other reports of injuries, FDNY officials said.
The fire was extinguished minutes before the girl died at the hospital.
neighbor told ABC7 The New Year's Day tragedy comes on the heels of another family member's death.
The girl's grandmother, who raised her, died just before Thanksgiving.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
