A mother has died after rushing back into her burning home in an attempt to rescue her 6-year-old daughter stuck inside who also ended up dying in the fire.
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, when flames began to envelop a single family home in Hazlet, New Jersey, that housed the Montanaro family. William Montonaro, along with his 40-year-old wife, Jackie Montanaro, their two daughters -- 8-year-old Elena and 6-year-old Madelyn -- and their Goldendoodle named Duchess were all sleeping inside their home approximately 40 miles south of New York City when the fire erupted.
William Montonaro, his wife Jackie and 8-year-old Elena were able to escape from the burning home but when the Montonaro's realized that 6-year-old Madelyn was nowhere to be seen, both parents rushed back into the house in an attempt to save her from the burning building."Jackie was a hero," William Montonaro said in a statement. "When I rushed back into the house for Madelyn I became enveloped with a massive amount of thick, hot black smoke.
A GoFundMe page for the family has already raised over a quarter-of-a-million dollars in just a few days with nearly 3,500 people donating in support of the family so far,"This township is like a family and when a neighbor is hurting, a family member is hurting," Hazlet Deputy Mayor Peter Terranova told WABC in an interview following the tragedy. "We've been overwhelmed by the amount of support.
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