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Arsonist Nabbed in Deadly Brooklyn Apartment Building Fire
February 2, 2010 by Neil · 2 Comments
Daniel Ignacio told police investigators that while he was drunk, he used paint thinner to ignite a roll of toilet paper on fire with a cigarette lighter inside a baby carriage in the stairwell of his apartment building. Ignacio then went to sleep, and woke up to find his Bensonhurst building at 2033 86th Street ablaze. (The residence is a 3-story, four-unit, mixed-use brick building erected in 1932.)
Any time someone starts a fire in a stairwell, it’s a deadly fire,” one arson investigator said. “It’s the worst you can get. A fire [that starts in an apartment] isn’t half as bad.
Ignacio apparently felt remorse, and even saved one of the children living there.
Luisa Ordoñez, 33, died in her husband’s arms after tossing their 2-year-old son and infant daughter to safety.
Four other people, including Juan Barreno, 28, a construction worker from Guatemala, also died in the blaze.
The fire was the city’s deadliest since a 2007 fire killed 10 people in the Bronx.
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