(21 Jan 2025)
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Kartalkaya Ski Center, Bolu, Turkey – 21 January 2025
1. Wide of Grand Kartal hotel, burned out roof of the hotel and emergency vehicles in front of hotel
2. Mid of hotel
3. Mid of entrance of the Grand Kartal hotel
4. Mid of fire engine
5. Mid of firefighters filling up oxygen tanks
6. Mid of fire engine passing by
7. Wide of burned out hotel and emergency workers
8. Wide of side of hotel
STORYLINE:
A fire at a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday killed at least 66 people, Turkey’s interior minister said.
Ali Yerlikaya said at least 51 other people were injured in the disaster that struck the Grand Kartal hotel in the resort of Kartalkaya, in Bolu province’s Koroglu mountains, some 300 kilometers (185 miles) east of Istanbul.
The fire occurred during the schools’ semester break, when hotels in the region are packed.
“We are in deep pain. We have unfortunately lost 66 lives in the fire that broke out at this hotel,” Yerlikaya told reporters after inspecting the site.
The hotel had 238 registered guests, Yerlikaya said.
The fire was reported at 3:27 a.m. local time and the fire department began to respond at 4:15 a.m., he told reporters.
The government appointed six prosecutors to lead an investigation into the blaze, which is believed to have started in the hotel’s restaurant section.
At least two of the victims died after jumping from the building in a panic, Gov. Abdulaziz Aydin told the state-run Anadolu Agency earlier.
Private NTV television and other media reported that some people tried to climb down from their rooms using sheets and blankets.
Television images showed the roof and top floors of the hotel on fire.
Witnesses and reports suggested that the hotel’s fire detection system failed to operate.
NTV television suggested that the wooden cladding on the exterior of the hotel, in a chalet-style design, may have accelerated the spread of the fire.
Part of the 161-room hotel is on the side of a cliff, hampering efforts to combat the flames.
NTV showed a smoke-blackened lobby, its glass entrance and windows smashed, its wooden reception desk charred and a chandelier crashed to the ground.
Other hotels at the resort were evacuated as a precaution and guests were placed in hotels around Bolu.
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