Outside the Grand Kartal Hotel in mountainous northwestern Turkey, ski instructors recall the fire that ripped through the packed building, killing 76 people. "You could hear screams," says Cevdet Can, recalling how some of the hotel's 238 guests threw themselves from windows to escape. Anger mounted in Turkey the day after the tragedy, with nine people arrested and allegations of negligence spreading.
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00:00Is it this place?
00:03Yes.
00:08There is a fire everywhere.
00:12When I came, there was fire everywhere.
00:16I came from those doors, not from the kitchen part.
00:22When I came here, there was a fire everywhere.
00:26There was a fire in the kitchen, and they were trying to put out the fire.
00:34There are children.
00:36Of course, the sound of the fire is heard.
00:39When I saw the fire, I took it with me.
00:44I took it from the front of the hotel.
00:48Did these sheets help?
00:50Of course, the sheets helped.
00:55After a certain stage, people were able to get rid of the fire.
00:59If someone didn't throw it like that, it would have been a disaster.
01:20We don't know what's going on because we came here in a sleepy state.
01:32We just came here.
01:34We saw that they evacuated 7-8 rooms by climbing the stairs to the remains of the fire brigade at 4.30.
01:43But other than that, the intensity of the fire has already started to distance us.
01:47We couldn't see much.
01:49The guests who came to our hotel will not be helpful.