Multiple businesses in the Bronx have been damaged or destroyed after an early morning fire that started at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Melrose.

“I’m crying for myself, I’m crying for my clients, I’m crying for my helpers. It’s heartbreaking,” Djounedou Titipkina, the owner of African Fashion and Embroidery Design Corp, said.

Titipkina said he lost months’ worth of work and merchandise that was stored at Holland Textiles on 3rd Avenue, where he rented space for his business.

“I do mainly wedding gowns, so a lot of people who are going to see this, it’s going to be heartbreaking for their weddings,” Titipkina said. “Because some weddings can take me three months to put the gowns together for the male and the female.”

FDNY officials said they received an emergency call just after 5 a.m. about a fire near the corner of 3rd Avenue and East 156th Street, which eventually spread to another commercial building.

At least six businesses were been damaged or destroyed, including Cedra Pharmacy.

“It’s a kind of war zone, where we go after the damages that we got,” Michael Alkhoury, co-owner of Cedra Pharmacy, said. “But I hope everything will be fixed as soon as possible because now we cannot operate the store.”

The FDNY said it worked to get the fire under control as quickly as possible, but the hot dry air made battling the blaze more difficult and dangerous.

“It can get very hot. You’ll see more multiple alarms in the hotter weather for relief purposes because of the high heat and humidity,” FDNY Assistant Chief Kevin Brennan said.

The owner of the 99 cent store on the corner of the block said he saw a lot of smoke when he arrived to find his shop destroyed, and his friend said the damage to the store is beyond repair.

“Destroyed, everything,” Mustafah Konateh said. Nothing is inside. Everything is destroyed right now that I see. I just come to say to him, it’s very sad, very, very sad.”

“And now we become Jobless,” Titipkina said. “We got families to feed, we got rents to pay. It's heartbreaking.”

Businesses will still have to figure out how much damage they have and what, if anything, can be salvaged.

That work can’t be done until investigators are finished at the scene, trying to figure out the cause of the fire.