Two baby sisters were killed when a faulty radiator turned their Bronx apartment into a “steam room” Wednesday, law-enforcement sources said.
Ibanez Ambrose, 2, and her little sister, Scylee, 1, suffered horrific burns to their faces and chests around noon in their family’s apartment at 720 Hunts Point Ave. near Bryant Avenue in Hunts Point, sources and police said.
The building is a so-called “cluster site” for the city’s homeless, where apartments are rented as needed for families in the building. Other tenants live there as well. A day care is also located on-site.
Cops found the children unconscious and unresponsive.
“It was probably a problem with the valve. It turned the place into a steam room,” a law-enforcement source said of the home’s radiator.
EMS transported the girls to Lincoln Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
Resident say they had been collectively complaining about the radiators in the apartments, which have been letting off way too much heat.
Computer records show that the Department of Buildings has logged dozens of complaints about the building, although mostly about broken elevators.
Residents of the building say the girls lived with their father, a tattoo artist named Pete Ambrose, and his wife, Danielle. According to the couple’s individual Facebook pages, they are originally from Houlton, Maine, lived for a while in Seattle and moved to New York about a year ago.
“I saw the parents bringing the kids out, giving them CPR, another neighbor called 911,” said Tye Moore, who lives in the building. “The parent’s reaction was horrible and heartbreaking.”
Moore said the girls were gorgeous and that their mother always played with them.
“We call them the Disney kids. They are loving and playful and magical. They did girly things, dress up, pretty blue eyes like water,” she added.
A woman answering the phone at MP Management, which is listed as the management company in charge of the building, slammed the receiver down when a Post reporter called seeking comment.
“We have nothing to say!” screamed the woman.