Ghastly tot death

B’klyn radiator steam kills 11-mo.-old

A baby boy was apparently burned to death by a malfunctioning radiator in Brooklyn on Friday, cops and law-enforcement sources said.

Month-old twins were also taken to the hospital from the Midwood home as a precaution, sources said.

Cops responded to an apartment on East 14th Street shortly after 6 a.m. and found the 11-month-old child in a bedroom suffering critical burns from a heating furnace that was leaking steam, according to police and sources.

There were three children in the home at the time, and their mother was feeding one of the kids in a different bedroom when she heard a loud sound from the other room, they said.

The 11-month-old was discovered mortally injured and rushed to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, the NYPD said.

Tragic leak

The radiator is believed to have malfunctioned, causing a dangerous amount of steam to leak out of it, police and sources said.

Investigators were spotted examining the exterior of the building, according to a video shared by WCBS 880 reporter Marla Diamond.

Upstairs neighbor Roman Kvaratskhelia, 46, told The Post that his mother opened the building’s front door for the first responders.

“I was having breakfast in my apartment,” he said. “I can’t imagine. I have kids.”

Another neighbor, Michael Roberto, said the family was “very nice.”

“I must’ve seen the toddler a month or two ago,” he recalled.

“I can’t believe this, I really can’t believe this,” Roberto continued. “I’m so shocked.”

‘A very nice family’

He noted that the building super was “very good” about fixing issues.

“I mean, they just had twins! I’m shaking,” Roberto said.

David Frank, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1997, said he had gotten to know the family slightly but not by name.

“We would say ‘Hello’ sometimes, or ‘Gut Shabbes,’ ” he told The Post on his way to shul, referring to the Yiddish expression.

“A very nice family. It’s very sad,” he said.

In 2017, two young sisters succumbed to heinous burns when a faulty radiator turned their Bronx apartment into a “steam room,” law enforcement said at the time.

“It was probably a problem with the valve,” a lawenforcement source said of the radiator issue that killed 2-year-old Ibanez Ambrose and her little sister, Scylee, 1.

“It turned the place into a steam room,” the source said.