A 1-year-old boy was killed and 6-year-old twins are in critical condition after a fast-moving fire ripped through a Bronx apartment building Monday afternoon.

A baby was killed, and 6-year-old twins were left in critical condition, when a fire tore through a Bronx apartment building on Monday afternoon, according to authorities and sources. The blaze erupted on the second floor of a building on Bainbridge Avenue between East 193rd Street and East 194th Street around 3:40 p.

Deadly Bronx blaze: A 1-year-old boy died and two other children were critically injured after a fire swept through a Fordham apartment building Monday afternoon. Rapid fire spread: FDNY says an open apartment door allowed flames to race through multiple ...

At one point, the mother of the children was crying, trying to get back into the building, but they wouldn’t let her," a witness at the scene said

Workers at a bodega brought out a small step ladder for fleeing residents to lower themselves onto instead of having to jump.

Fire officials say the deadly Inwood fire earlier this week​ followed an all-too-similar pattern -- flames spreading through open doors.