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Necmi Kepsetutan, a ski instructor at the hotel, said he was sleeping when the fire broke out and he left the building. He then helped evacuate about 20 guests from the hotel, he told NTV television. He said the hotel was surrounded by smoke, making it difficult for guests to find a place to escape the fire.
At least 10 people have been killed and about 32 injured in a massive fire that broke out at a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey. The fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. in the restaurant of the 12-story Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalakaya resort of Bolu province. The cause of the fire has not been known yet. Governor Abdulaziz Aydin told the state-run Anadolu Agency that two victims died after jumping from the building in panic. Private NTV television said some people tried to climb down from their rooms using sheets and blankets. He told that 234 guests were staying in the hotel.
Necmi Kepsetutan, a ski instructor at the hotel, said he was sleeping when the fire broke out and he left the building. He then helped evacuate about 20 guests from the hotel, he told NTV television. He said the hotel was surrounded by smoke, making it difficult for guests to find a place to escape the fire.
The ski instructor told the station he couldn’t reach some of his students. I hope they are okay. Television images showed the roof and upper floors of the hotel on fire. The government appointed six prosecutors to lead the investigation into the fire. NTV television suggested that the wooden cladding on the hotel’s exterior, a chalet-style design, may have accelerated the spread of the fire.
The first moments of a fire that broke out in a hotel in Kartalkaya Ski Resort in #bolukartalkaya were captured on a mobile phone camera. #Turkiye #kartalotel
ЁЯУ╖Huge fire at ski resort leaves 10 dead as guests jump from windowpic.twitter.com/jQvguyXM4VтАФ Umair Javed (@umairjaved1591) January 21, 2025
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