Building resident says fire alarm in building was always going off

Daisy Mitchell is a building resident of the residential apartment building in the Bronx that went up in flames Sunday. She lives on the 10th floor.

“I just hear people banging on doors saying ‘it’s a fire, it’s a fire,’ so I ain’t pay it no mind, but then when we opened that door the smoke just hit us, and we ran to the hallway to the exit and I just panicked, I got scared, even with the mask on,” Mitchell told CNN affiliate WABC.

Mitchell showed reporters her hands, which were blackened from smoke. She said she got smoke up her nose.

She said she didn’t understand why she needed to leave her apartment if she’s on the 10th floor, when the fire took place on the second and third floor.

“A lot of people didn’t even come out of their apartment. It’s crazy,” she said.

Mitchell told WABC she was really scared leaving her apartment.

“That smoke really hit me, by the time I got to the exit and I had the mask on, I couldn’t even see, I thought I went blind, so I was banging on my door to get back in,” she said. “If them people didn’t knock on the door and say there was a fire outside, we would’ve stayed up in there.”