The city failed twice in one week to protect a pair of young sisters killed in a raging Bronx apartment fire.
A city Administration for Children’s Services caseworker was assigned to investigate their Butler Houses apartment in the week before the fatal April 13 blaze — but failed to document conditions at the residence, a source told the Daily News.
A New York City Housing Authority worker was in the home four hours before the blaze — and failed to check the smoke alarms that apparently never went off after the fire began.
Killed in the blaze were 2-year-old Jannubi Jabie and her sister, 18-month-old Amanda, after their mother left the toddlers alone inside the third-floor apartment.
According to the source, the ACS worker was required to visit the home within 48 hours and check for window guards, carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors.
None of that ever happened, the source told The News.
The veteran employee is no longer working ACS investigations, although the source said it was unclear if she had resigned or was suspended.
An ACS spokesman did not return an email for comment Wednesday.
At the time of the fire, neighbors said they never heard smoke alarms go off.
No criminal charges were filed against Rene Rivera, who retired in July once the agency opened disciplinary proceedings against him.
Rivera had been a NYCHA employee for 27 years.
The mother of the two dead girls, Haya Konte, 26, was due back in court Thursday for a hearing on charges of criminally negligent homicide and endangering the welfare of a child.
With Reuven Blau
