Overview

• Recent reports revisit the tragedy as the character Angelica returns to the soap, now played by Rebecca Bakes.
• Sophie Firth briefly portrayed Angelica King in 2009 as a toddler before the fatal accident three years later.
• In December 2012 in South Yorkshire, her dress caught alight from a gas fire while she showed her grandmother an angel costume.
• She sustained burns over about 70% of her body and died from a blood infection after treatment at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
• Emmerdale and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue issued condolences, and her parents have since raised nearly £23,000 for charity in her memory.