Bronx Radiator Explosion Kills 2 Toddlers: Police

HUNTS POINT, BRONX — Two toddlers were killed Wednesday when a radiator exploded in a Bronx apartment building, an NYPD spokeswoman told Patch.

The toddlers — identified as sisters Ibanez Ambrose, 2, and Scylee Vayoh Ambrose, 1 — were rushed to Lincoln Hospital with steam burns around noon, police said. The girls were pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital, police told Patch.

The explosion occurred in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx in an apartment building on Hunts Point Avenue near Bryant Avenue, police said. The building was being used by the city to house homeless families, the Wall Street Journal reported. Five of the six-story building's apartments were being used to house homeless families, who will now be moved out of the building, according to reports.

The cause of the explosion will be investigated by the Fire Marshall's office, an NYPD spokeswoman told Patch.

"We will certainly be looking at Building Department records, previous complaints, outstanding complaints, current complaints," FDNY Chief Michael Gala told the Daily News.

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