A fire late final night in the Staten Island neighborhood of Prince’s Bay claimed the life of a nine-year-old boy. Thomas Monahan Jr., who was unable to escape the fire at 49 Princewood Ave. was pronounced dead at 1:45 a.m. at Staten Island University Hospital. The boy’s father Thomas Monahan desperately attempted to save his son after he, his wife and his 8-year-old daughter escaped safely.

Monahan reportedly tried to save Thomas Jr. by climbing a ladder to the moment floor of the residence and breaking a bedroom window with a chair, but was unable to get into the house. The

FDNY says the fire started in the basement or on the first floor of the house and thereupon spread to the moment floor via the stairway.

The cause of the blaze is still under research.

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