Several people were rescued from a burning building in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood early New Year's Day. Around 12:40 a.m., the Chicago Fire Department confirmed firefighters were responding to a fire on the fifth floor of a building in the 7000 block of South Shore Drive.

The fire started around midnight on the fifth floor of an apartment complex at 7465 S. South Shore Dr., according to the Chicago Fire Department. Chicago firefighters rescued people from the building as it was burning,

Chicago fire fighters rescued a number of people from an early morning fire Wednesday in a South Shore apartment building.