A massive blaze ripped through a Bronx apartment building owned by a man who once was named the city’s “worst landlord” Friday, leaving at least seven people injured and hundreds forced to find other shelter, officials said.  

Some 200 FDNY firefighters responded to the 1:40 a.m. inferno at the six-story 2910 Wallace Ave. in the East Bronx — where alarming video showed huge plumes of fire billowing from the roof.

“I know my apartment is done. I lost everything,” Vanessa 0., 34, told The Post as firefighters continued to fight the smoldering blaze before noon Friday.

“My husband works from home, he has computers, electronics … everything we need. I need clothes to go to work. I wear suits to work. This is all I have,” she continued, pointing to the sweatpants and light coat she was wearing.

Vanessa, a tenant of five years, was alerted to the flames by the sound of fire engines early this morning. No smoke or fire alarms were set off, she said.

“We opened our doors and we saw them bringing in the hose upstairs. We didn’t run out. The fire department was so busy trying to get the hose to the top floor, they didn’t even tell us to leave,” Vanessa said.

“The electricity went off in the building and that’s when they moved everybody to the lobby.  I’m guessing they evacuated maybe four or five in the morning but initially everybody was there.”

Multiple tenants told The Post that the building has been suffering from numerous problems over the last few months — and alleged that the landlord, Parkash Management, had done little to quell their concerns.

The company’s owner, Ved Parkash, made headlines one decade ago after being named the city’s “worst landlord” by then-Public Advocate Letitia James for allowing his buildings to fall into squalor.

Fire officials said Friday’s blaze started in the cockloft — the space between the ceiling and the underside of the roof — though they could not say the cause as the fire continued to burn until it was finally brought under control around 3 p.m.

Within an hour, “heavy wind conditions” elevated the fire to five alarms — the highest alarm level indicating a severe fire, according to the FDNY.

“The fire had too much headway. It was extremely dangerous for our firefighters,” said John Esposito, the FDNY’s Chief of Department.

The seven injured include five firefighters and two civilians, the FDNY said.

One of the civilians was treated at the scene and declined to be taken to a hospital.

The seven injured include five firefighters and two civilians, the FDNY said. None of the injuries were life-threatening.

One of the civilians was treated at the scene and declined to be taken to a hospital.

The roof was completely burned off, and all the apartments on the top floor were destroyed.

The lower levels were flooded, according to Vanessa.

At least 66 families were displaced by the blaze. Officials opened a temporary relief zone at P.S. 76, the Bennington School, down the corner from the scorched apartment building.

Gluendy Disz, 28, and her mother had only been living in the East Bronx apartment building for a few months when the fire tore through the building Friday.

“Everything is destroyed but I’m hanging in there,” Diaz told The Post while clutching Dexter, her three-year-old black Labrador. 

“He was the first thing I grabbed,” she said. 

The surgical coordinator and her mother had been sleeping when the chaos erupted.

“The firefighters were just coming up the stairs. We had just woken up and it was already going on,” Diaz recalled. “I was nervous, I was frightened.”

Luz Gonzalez, 65, has lived in a third-floor apartment for over 20 years, said broken heaters, water leaking through light fixtures and collapsed ceilings have been among the complaints she and her neighbors have filed in recent months.

“We’ve been telling them that something was going through our ceilings, water was going through our lightbulbs and everything was horrible, but they didn’t listen to us,” Gonzalez told The Post.

“Water is coming through my lightbulb. Do you know what he had the nerve to tell me? To wait until after the holidays,” she continued.

“I lost everything. I don’t have nothing, nothing at all, but he sure wants his rent.”

Lilia Elva Gonzalez, a ground-floor tenant of 17 years, complained that the electricity in her apartment was not up to standard.

“Do you think this is fair? No! I pay my rent. I have my record, each month I pay my rent. I always complain. They don’t listen to me,” she told The Post.

“This is about the owners, they do nothing. Why did they wait for this to happen when they could’ve fixed it before but didn’t do it, right?”

Various 311 reports back up the displaced tenants’ allegations — particularly that the building had been suffering heating issues for months.

Roughly 70 complaints stretching back to November claim there was no heat in the building — an issue some residents may have tried to remedy themselves with space heaters and ovens.

“From the FDNY’s perspective, we would ask people not to do that. It’s cold weather.

Obviously, that’s a very dangerous situation. It can cause fires to happen, and we hope that we are sending the message that fire safety in the cold weather is super important, and to report any situations like that to 3-1-1 immediately,” said Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker.

While it is still unclear what caused the massive blaze, Parkash has a storied history of allegedly neglecting his numerous buildings, which mostly pepper the Bronx.

In 2017, Parkash made headlines for allowing conditions in another Bronx building to deteriorate so severely that it bred a deadly rat-borne bacterial disease to flourish.

Three people caught leptospirosis, which is linked to rat urine — one of whom succumbed to the infection.

Parkash has also been accused of illegally dividing apartment basements into additional units.

He was dubbed the city’s “worst landlord” two years before the rat infestation, though Parkash managed to avoid the city’s dishonor list in 2023.

When reached for comment, a spokesperson for the landlord, Parkash Management said, “We are withholding comment because this is an active fire investigation.”