At another place in the building, four survivors were found pinned under the debris, a fire official said.
Local fire official DO Adusa said survivors were withholding information about the operation.
The club's license had expired in August and had not been renewed, a local fire official told Globo TV.
CNN: Brazil nightclub fire: 'Like a war zone' with bodies piled
Three hospital staffers suffered slight smoke inhalation, a Madrid fire official said.
The club's license had expired in August and had not been renewed, local fire official Moises da Silva Fuchs told Globo TV.
For others, escaping was complicated by the fact that guards initially stopped people from leaving, he said, echoing comments from the state fire official.
CNN: Fire rips through crowded Brazil nightclub, killing 233
About 2, 000 people were inside the club when the fire broke out -- double the maximum capacity of 1, 000, said Guido de Melo, a state fire official.
CNN: Brazil nightclub fire: 'Like a war zone' with bodies piled
Fire official Abdus Salam said the building had been constructed on land which was once a canal and the owner had been adding another floor to it when the collapse occurred.
For others, escaping was complicated by the fact that guards initially stopped people from leaving, said a reporter from CNN affiliate Band News, echoing comments from the state fire official.
CNN: Brazil nightclub fire: 'Like a war zone' with bodies piled
In a second wildfire on the other side of the Los Angeles area, firefighters were making progress against flames that consumed more than 2, 950 acres in Riverside County, a fire official said.
Senior fire department official Mohammad Mahbub told the Associated Press news agency that the factory had no fire exit on the outside of the building.
BBC: Dhaka Bangladesh clothes factory fire kills more than 100
"We are happy that this high-risk operation was successful, " said Claudio Saenz, a fire department official with knowledge of the rescue efforts.
Russia's death rate rose by more than a quarter during August's heatwave and forest fire crisis, official data show.
Baghdad (CNN) -- At least five people were injured when bodyguards for a top Iraqi official opened fire on stone-throwing Sunni demonstrators Sunday, the country's interior ministry said.
CNN: Clashes erupt at Iraqi protest as sectarian tensions flare
Less than two months ago at a pork processor in south China, for example, around 400 people were endangered by an ammonia leak like the one blamed for Monday's fire, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
An official with the city's fire department said earlier that the missing man and another person were in a guard shack at t he BAE Shipyard that was blown into the Mobile River.
The information from Twitter comes from all sorts of places: from official agencies such as the Colorado Springs Fire Department to people in and near the city sharing what they're witnessing with other people around the state and the nation.
But a police official also told BBC Urdu that unidentified gunmen opened fire on the schoolgirls as they were about to board a van or bus.
"If anybody thinks that we will be a winner out of this fire, I think they're wrong, " said Palestinian official Saeb Erakat.
CNN: Palestinian fighting 'will burn all of us,' official says
With just a few days to go until Sir Michael Scholar leaves his job at the helm of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), the watchdog has for the first time turned its fire, not on politicians or civil servants it thinks have misused official stats, but on members of the press.
An EU official said the new mandate would allow warships or helicopters to fire at fuel barrels, boats, trucks or other equipment on beaches, according to Agence France-Presse.
Yet, apart from the fire-bombing of Dresden and Hamburg, it is barely registered in the official German collective memory.
"They believed they were coming under attack from that side of the border, " a senior U.S. official said, although investigators have yet to pinpoint the precise source of fire.
Syria's air and naval forces conducted live-fire manoeuvres aimed testing their readiness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland, " the official Sana news agency reported, with state TV pictures reportedly showing warplanes and helicopters firing missiles at targets in a desert area, as well as surface-to-air missiles hitting targets in the air.
He said he launched an investigation into the matter the next day, and he concluded that it was not a "fire-able offense, " just a bad joke that has stained the Pac-12's official program.
In all the places where official celebrations were held, citizens trooped out in their thousands in gratitude to the brave who faced enemy fire.
There is no official figure on the number of people still missing, but Akram Hossain, a deputy director of the fire service, said their chances of survival were "diminishing by the minute".
The investigation will focus on whether the Marines followed procedures to properly fire the weapon, whether there was a malfunction in the firing device or in the explosive mortar itself, the official said.
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