Chase ends in robbery charges: Apartment burns after occupants evacuated by police seeking gunman.

Byline: Anne Miller

Mar. 2--ALBANY -- Rice, beans and pork chops cooked while Blanca Alvarado watched her infant nephew when police, weapons drawn, banged on the door of her Ontario Street apartment Thursday afternoon. She said officers told her an armed gunman was hiding upstairs. They hustled her and the baby out of the house so fast, she didn't have time to turn off the stove -- and the house caught fire, according to the woman and police. This morning two men are expected to be arraigned on charges that they robbed a man on Western Avenue, then led police on a foot chase through the neighborhood that included one of them running through Alvarado's …