A fire in Philadelphia's Port Richmond neighborhood has left a 67-year-old man dead and another man hospitalized on Thursday night, police said. 

The fire happened at a rowhome on the 3200 block of Almond Street at around 6:30 p.m. 

Three people were inside the rowhome at the time of the fire, and Philadelphia Fire Department Deputy Chief Michael Richey said two of them had to be rescued. 

A 67-year-old homebound bariatric man was on the first floor, and a 49-year-old man with special needs was on the second floor. Both of them needed to be rescued by firefighters. A third man managed to escape on his own.

The 67-year-old man was taken to Temple University Hospital and pronounced dead. The 49-year-old man was treated for smoke inhalation at the hospital. 

Fire officials said the men were alerted to the flames by a smoke alarm, and while crews contained the fire quickly, clutter inside the home made the rescue more difficult.

"Just sad," Edytia Gaviria, a neighbor, said. "Really no words to describe this."

Gaviria is at a loss after she learned one of her neighbors died because of the fire. Even before finding out, she said she could sense something was wrong.

"Suddenly, I heard noise of firefighters passing this way and I just open the door and looking and there's a thousand people standing outside of our house. So, I got scared because that's very close," she said. "The smoke was going up and down and all over."

For Gaviria, the loss is a somber reminder of how fragile life can be.

"Life is unpredictable," Gaviria said. "Every day something can happen. We don't know."

The cause of the fire is under investigation.