An early-morning New Year’s Eve fire burned an apartment building, critically injured one person and displaced nearly three dozen residents in Northwest Washington’s Columbia Heights neighborhood, according to the city’s fire department.

Around 35 residents were torn from their homes in the early hours of New Year's Eve after a fire ripped through a Columbia Heights apartment complex.

Two women were badly injured and 35 people were displaced by a fire in D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood on the morning of New Year’s Eve, officials said. Firefighters responded to the 1400 block of Chapin St NW,

Multiple residents were rescued via aerial ladders after a fire engulfed the top floor of an apartment in Columbia Heights.

Two women were in the hospital on New Year’s Eve after a large fire broke out at an apartment building leaving several people displaced in Northwest D.C. Vito Maggiolo, a spokesperson for DCFD, told DC News Now at the scene that just before 1 a.