Of pain

Bro journeys from Israel to visit B’klyn fire dad

THE BROTHER of a Brooklyn dad who was critically injured trying to save his doomed wife and three children from a raging inferno broke down in tears Tuesday after seeing his sibling clinging to life in a hospital bed.

“We hope that everything is going to be OK,” Amir Azan said in a whisper outside Staten Island University Hospital after visiting his badly burned brother.

Azan took a red-eye flight from Israel after learning of the Chanukah tragedy that claimed the four members of his brother’s family.

Yosi Azan’s wife and the three children died when a fire tore through their Sheepshead Bay home about 2 a.m. on Monday, trapping them on the second floor behind a wall of flames.

The family had gone to bed after celebrating the sixth night of Chanukah. The FDNY said the blaze was accidental and caused by “an unattended lit menorah.”

Yosi Azan’s 16-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son were also critically injured and were being treated at the Staten Island hospital.

Jack Meyer, founder of Misaskim, a Jewish burial group, said Yosi and those two children had not been told of the four deaths.

Azan’s 13-year-old son and a cousin who were on the ground floor when the fire started suffered only minor injuries. That son, Avraham, flew to Israel Monday night with his family members’ bodies after a funeral service at Shevet Achim synagogue in Brooklyn.

Friends tried to comfort Amir Azan on Tuesday as he sat on a bench outside the hospital.

“I’m sorry because I’m not doing well,” he said before putting his head down to cry.

A friend said Azan was overwhelmed seeing his brother in the intensive care unit with tubes in his mouth and visible burn wounds on his body.

“He just saw him and he’s still in a bad condition,” the friend said of Yosi Azan. “He’s not doing well yet.”

The friend said that Amir and Yosi’s sister and mother were also planning on flying from Israel to New York to be with the family.

Firefighters found the bodies of Yosi’s wife, 40-year-old Aliza, and their 3-year-old daughter, Henrietta, in a bedroom on the second floor.

They discovered the two boys — Yitzah, 7, and Moshe, 11 — in another bedroom on the floor.

Yosi, 45, worked for years at the Hat Box in Coney Island, where he repaired expensive felt headpieces for the Orthodox community.

Aliza was the daughter of Ibrahim al-Hamra, the former chief rabbi of Syria who now lives in Israel.

Her brother is a leader in the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn.