A community in the Bronx is mourning the loss of a young hero.
19-year-old Lucas Silverio was awakened early Sunday morning by a fire racing through his building in the Belmont section.
After helping his grandmother out, Lucas raced back up 14 floors and carried out a badly burned 3-year-old girl, who died one day later.
Lucas died Wednesday.
"He was a wonderful human being," said his second cousin Jesse Alvarez. "A heart of gold. His heart was the size, it couldn't fit in his body."
His family was overcome with anguish Wednesday night at Jacobi Medical Center after Lucas died of injuries he suffered in the raging inferno.
The flames erupted out of the roof of his 16-story building on Garden Street just after 1 a.m. Sunday.