Cops in Brooklyn have busted a tenant in connection with an apartment fire that killed five people.

A police source told the Daily News the suspect is a resident on the second floor of the Bensonhurst building who got drunk, set fire to a baby carriage and then had a sudden attack of remorse. He helped carry at least one baby out of the burning building.

"He's been down on himself," the source said. "He was drinking all day, Friday into Saturday, went into the hallway and set a baby carriage on fire. He confessed, but he said he didn't think (the building) would go up like that."

A law enforcement source identified the suspect as Daniel Ignacio, who lived on the second floor of the building. He's being questioned at the 62nd Precinct stationhouse. Police said charges are pending against Ignacio.

The suspect is not the man seen leaving the building shortly before the fire erupted early Saturday.

Ignacio stood out to detectives. He was constantly outside the Brooklyn building.

"He's been everywhere," the source said. "The scene, the church. He's been very accessible to us."

Ignacio, who has at least one previous arrest for burglary, is not the man seen leaving the building shortly before the Saturday morning fire erupted.

The five people who died in the fire include a hero mom whose last act was to save her kids.

 

 

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