Manhattan apartment basement fire A 7-year-old boy was killed

A fire broke out in the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing a 7-year-old boy and seriously injuring his grandmother.

According to ABC7, the fire occurred in an apartment building on 178th Street in Washington Heights.

At around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, police reported a fire in the apartment building. The fire began with the apartment of the building administrator, located in the basement, where there were 5 people at the time.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, and the fire did not spread elsewhere.

The administrator's grandson, 7-year-old Robert Resto, was pronounced dead on the spot. The boy's 54-year-old grandmother was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where she is in critical condition.

Many occupants of the six-story apartment building said they didn't know what was going on. One witness said he just heard the fire trucks coming, starting with one, then a lot of them, surrounding the building. You can smell something like a wire short circuit, burning. When everyone came out, they found that the basement was on fire.

The Fire Department is still investigating the cause of the fire at the scene.

Compile: LH