Around 1:50 p.m., D.C. Fire and EMS personnel responding to a fire in a three-story apartment building across the street, and fire truck ladders towering overhead.
Roughly three hours earlier, Mitchell was inside that Southeast D.C. building, and in her apartment, when the fire broke out.
“It started on the roof up the stairs, like in two minutes, the whole roof was just engulfed,” Mitchell said. “The fire department got here as fast as they could.”…