One person was killed in a house fire on Long Island on Friday morning, after firefighters who rushed to the burning home were unable to reach a man trapped inside in time to save him. The deadly blaze broke out in the New Cassel area, leaving a home gutted and drawing an intense emergency response to the residential scene.
The flames broke out just before 8 o'clock in the morning, tearing through the house as crews raced to the location. By the time the fire was brought under control, the home had been left charred and burned out, its structure visibly scorched in aerial images captured over the Long Island neighborhood from above.
Firefighters made an effort to rescue a man who was trapped inside the burning home, but their attempt was unsuccessful and the man did not survive. The death turned what began as a house fire into a tragedy on the Long Island block, where a heavy response of emergency crews worked the scene through the morning.
As of Friday afternoon, the identity of the man who died in the fire had not yet been released. Authorities had not publicly confirmed his name or other details about him, and it was not immediately clear whether anyone else had been inside the home at the time that the fire first started to spread.
Investigators had not determined what may have caused the fire. There was no word on how the blaze started or where inside the home it may have originated, and officials were expected to work through the scene to try to piece together the circumstances that led to the deadly morning fire.
A news helicopter over the scene showed the burned-out home in the aftermath of the fire, a stark picture of the destruction that had been left behind. The fatal fire cast a somber note over the Long Island community, and authorities were continuing their investigation at the site as questions about the blaze remained unanswered.