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At least 9 cats killed in NYC house fire

At least a dozen cats and a dog were killed — and seven people were injured — when a fire swept through a Staten Island home Monday, neighbors and friends said.

The flames raged through MaryAnn Sorrenson’s animal filled two story house on Kingdom Avenue in Huguenot at around 10:30 a.m., starting in her kitchen and quickly spreading up to the second floor.

Firefighters at work at the homeSteven White

At least 12 of Sorrenson’s 30 feline friends perished in the fire, but EMS workers managed to rescue several other, even reviving some of the adorable cats with oxygen as they lay struggling to breath on her front lawn.

Next door neighbor Ann Marie Grant saw the thick black smoke coming from her neighbor’s home and called for her husband, William Grant, a captain from Engine 168 in Rossville, who rushed over with his son Brian, a 26-year-old Brooklyn cop.

“I saw flames coming from the back of the house,” said Ann Marie Grant said. “The whole back of the house blew out into the yard.”

Brian used a garden hose to keep the flames at bay while his dad, 54, tried to make into the smoky house and up the stairs before being forced back.

“I see fire and smoke and [Sorrenson] was screaming ‘help me!’” he said. “We kicked in the front door and tried to make it upstairs but we were unable.”

The quick thinking smoke eater then grabbed his own personal ladder from his yard, propped it against the burning house and climbed in through a window with no protective gear.

“We put it up on the porch and kicked in the top window, the bedroom window,” he said. But after rescuing the woman, all Sorrenson could say was “Get my cats! Save my cats!”

“It’s sad. she really loves animals” Grant said, explaining that the fire and smoke were too intense to go back in for the cats. “No one wants to see anything die. Fire is unforgiving.”

Sorrenson was taken to Staten Island University Hospital in serious condition.

Five firefighters suffered minor injuries while dousing the fire and were also taken to Staten Island University Hospital.

William and Brian Grant also suffered minor burns and bruises during the rescue but were not seriously hurt.

“They are both heros in my eyes,” said Ann Marie Grant, referring to her husband and son. “They were brave and they got her out before anything happened.”