(Paul Martinka)
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Two Brooklyn toddlers yesterday helped save their parents’ lives after a stove exploded in the family’s apartment.
“Amonnie screamed, ‘Mommy, Mommy, look!’ ” Nissa Ingram, 33, said of her 3-year-old daughter, who was with her 1-year-old sister, Amyia, in another room of the East New York apartment when the explosion occurred at about 1 p.m.
Ingram said she saw only heavy smoke when she looked down the hall toward her children’s cries.
“I screamed, ‘Where’s my babies?’ ” she said. “I couldn’t see them, but I could hear their screams.”
Her husband, in a back bedroom when he was alerted to the fire by the girls, jumped into action.
He grabbed them from the smoke-filled front room and escaped with them and his wife.
“My babies saved our lives,” Ingram said.
Firefighters extinguished the flames by 1:25 p.m.
EMS took the children to Brookdale Hospital for observation. The family’s 1-year-old cat, Isis, did not survive.
Ingram said the fire occurred about an hour after city Housing Authority workers had come to fix sockets in their apartment.