Britney Maldonado and her roommate Chelsey Hernandez said they woke up to a smoky apartment Wednesday.

“We saw smoke everywhere. It just looked like smoke was coming out of everybody's doors,” Maldonado said.

The two live on the fifth floor of a Queens apartment building that went up in flames around noon on Wednesday. The FDNY says the fire began on the sixth floor.

“We see our neighbors, their entire homes. You can see where it burned the roof. Their entire apartment, like everything is ruined,” Maldonado said.

Firefighters were met with heavy flames when they arrived at the apartment on 47th Avenue in Sunnyside.

“At the head of the fire, we have six tower ladders operating. We had six hand lines, as well as other fire suppression devices,” Thomas Currao of the FDNY said. 

More than 100 FDNY units responded, and it took members over four hours to get the fire under control. Many residents had to find another place to sleep, including Brian Witte.

“We grabbed what we could. It's just things. We'll be ok, as long as people are ok and we're ok. And my daughter is in school next door, so she's safe. It's hard, but it'll be ok,” Witte said.

Fourteen people, including four firefighters, were treated for non-life threatening injuries after the fire.

Maldonado says they do not know when they will be allowed back into their apartment, but they anticipate heavy water damage.

“I'm just thinking of our neighbors. It's really horrible for this to happen days before Christmas. You see their apartment. They are just ruined. There is no salvaging anything,” Maldonado said.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The FDNY estimates more than 400 residents are impacted by it.

As of 9:15 p.m. Wednesday night, the American Red Cross said they registered 68 households and 160 people for emergency assistance, which includes emergency temporary housing, meals and other resources.