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Michele Cardoso, Brazilian Nightclub Fire Victim, Pleaded For Help On Facebook Before She Died

Woman Trapped In Deadly Nightclub Blaze Posted Final Facebook Message Asking For Help
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A young woman trapped inside the deadly Brazilian nightclub blaze this weekend posted one final message to Facebook, pleading for help as the building burned.

As Gawker notes, Michele Cardoso, a 20-year-old medical student, was at Boate Kiss on Sunday with her sister and her boyfriend, João Paulo Pozzobon.

About 50 minutes after the fire began, Cardoso was able to access Facebook one last time.

"Fire at KISS help," she posted to the site.

All three patrons died in the blaze, according to Gawker. Pozzobon's Facebook page still shows his Foursquare check-in at Boate Kiss. Below the post, one user wrote: "The last check-in."

One of Cardoso's friends told Brazil Extra that she had always been a very cheerful person.

More than 230 people were killed in the crowded Santa Maria club after pyrotechnics ignited the soundproof foam.

"Large amounts of toxic smoke quickly filled the room, and I would say that at least 90 percent of the victims died of asphyxiation," Dr. Paulo Afonso Beltrame, a professor at the nearby medical school, told the Associated Press.

At least three people have been arrested in connection with the blaze, including the club's co-owner.

PHOTO of Michele Cardoso's Facebook post:

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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, 550 Km from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil on January 27, 2012. (Germano Roratto/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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People run away as firefighters try to put out a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, 550 Km from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil on January 27, 2012. (Germano Roratto/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, 550 Km from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil on January 27, 2012. (Germano Roratto/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A man carries an injured victim of a fire at the Kiss club in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, early Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Agencia RBS) (credit:AP)
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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, 550 Km from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil on January 27, 2012. (Germano Roratto/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Relatives of victims cry after a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, 550 Km from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil on January 27, 2012. (LAURO ALVES/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Relatives of victims embrace as they wait for information after a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, 550 Km from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil on January 27, 2012. (LAURO ALVES/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Relativies prays in the wake of a victim of the Kiss night club fire at the local cementery on January 27, 2013 in Santa Maria.(JEFFERSON BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JEFFERSON BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images)
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Relatives of victims react in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Evandro Sturm) (credit:AP Photo/Evandro Sturm)
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Family members and friends stand around coffins containing the remains of victims after the bodies were identified at a gymnasium in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Nabor Goulart) (credit:AP Photo/Nabor Goulart)
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A woman cries over the coffin of her boyfriend at a gymnasium where bodies were brought for identification in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Nabor Goulart) (credit:AP Photo/Nabor Goulart)
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Relatives of a victim of the Kiss nightclub blaze mourn him during a wake held at the chapel of the cemetery on January 28, 2013 in Santa Maria, southern Brazil. (JEFFERSON BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JEFFERSON BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images)
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Relativies and friends of Heitor de Oliveira, one of the victims of the Kiss night club fire, gather around his coffin during the funeral at Santa Rita cementery in Santa Maria, on January 28, 2013. (ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Livia Oliveira, mother of Heitor, one of the victims of the Kiss night club fire, kisses his coffin during his funeral at Santa Rita cementery in Santa Maria, on January 28, 2013. (ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Relatives and friends carry the coffins of two brothers, Pedro and Marcelo Salla, who died in a nightclub fire, as they prepare to bury them at a cemetery in Santa Maria, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) (credit:AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Relatives of one of the victims of the blaze in a disco on the eve cry at the municipal cementery on January 28, 2012 in Santa Maria, southern Brazil. (ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Juan Calegaro, one of the victims of the blaze in a disco on the eve, at the municipal cementery on January 28, 2012 in Santa Maria, southern Brazil. (ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Friends of one of the victims of the blaze in a disco on the eve put flowers on his grave, at the municipal cementery on January 28, 2012 in Santa Maria, southern Brazil. (ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images)
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