New York Post

'I cant't be here' in tot-death house

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The grieving parents of the baby sisters killed by a faulty radiator went about the grim task of moving out of their Bronx apartment Friday, clearing out items like pink comforters and toys.

“How do I feel? How does any parent feel right now? You know how I feel,” father Pete Ambrose, 35, said around 2 p.m. at the Hunts Point building where hot steam from a malfunctio­ning radiator burned daughters Ibanez, 2, and Scylee, 1, to death.

“A lot of lawyers are calling asking to represent the case, but no one is really helping.”

Pete and Danielle Ambrose arrived with cops and four other friends and family members who helped them move out. They left after about a half-hour.

Pete’s eyes were red and swollen as if he’d been crying, and at one point, he said he needed to go for a walk. “I can’t be here,” he said.

Annie Martinez, a neighbor and family friend who helped the couple move, said Danielle is “going through a lot of pain, and she’s very hurt right now.”

“She gave me everything of theirs,” Martinez said. “She said to give all of it to the kids in the building.”

The neighbor added that she has had problems with her own radiator.

The Ambroses moved out of the building, which is one of the city’s “cluster sites” for the homeless, as the Department of Investigat­ion announced it is investigat­ing the incident.

Tenant Emmanuel Vazquez said he has also had issues with his radiator, and has taken the building’s landlord, Moshe Piller, to court.

“I called 311 and he hates me,” Vazquez said. “I got him in court. He only cares if things are good in the front but the back is a mess. People are always breaking in.”

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