The fire in the 12-story hotel was reported at 3:27 a.m., and the fire department began to respond at 4:15 a.m., a government official said.

Two people died jumping from a cliff-top hotel engulfed in flames in Turkey in the early hours of this morning. A fire broke out at the Grand Kartal Otel in the snow-covered ski resort of Kartalkaya,

Death toll from fire at a ski resort in Turkey rises to 76, the interior minister says. A Georgia fire chief stopped to help a driver who hit a deer. He was then shot and killed.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday the death toll from a predawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort has risen to 76.