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December 10, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — Hundreds of Chicago firefighters were needed to put out a deadly high-rise fire early Thursday morning.

Flames shot out of the condo building at 260 East Chestnut in the Streeterville neighborhood. More than 200 residents ran out into the bitter cold after the fire broke out shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday.

Investigators say the fire started on the 36th floor in the unit of the woman who died, 84-year-old Beata Bihl.

“She was found in the front of the apartment toward the door, trying to make an escape,” said Commissioner John Brooks of the Chicago fire department

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