Child-Endangering Mother Charged After East New York Fire

According to a Daily News report, the two male children, ages 3 and 5, were badly injured by a fire in an apartment at 6 p.m. Friday in East New York. Fire fighters from NYFD Engine 257 removed the children who were then resuscitated before being placed in New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell for smoke inhalation. The mother, Milagros Perez, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after she went on a 25 minute walk just before the fire began.