Witnesses say guests at a ski resort hotel in Turkey tried to escape a deadly fire with ropes and sheets hung from windows.

Tuesday's fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya left at least 79 people dead and 51 injured, happening during a particularly busy season.

Some had returned to the hotel year after year. Their deaths — amid dozens of others at the hotel — have stirred grief and outrage.

At least 66 people have been killed and 51 have been injured after a fire broke out at the Grand Kartal Hotel which is in a popular ski resort in Bolu province, Turkey, it's been reported

A devastating fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya, a ski resort in northwestern Turkey, resulted in 66 fatalities, with 51 others injured. Eyewitness reports indicate the hotel’s fire detection system failed.

A devastating fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Turkey's Kartalkaya ski resort killed at least 76 people and injured 51 others during a busy school holiday period.

Dozens of people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, forcing desperate holidaymakers to leap from windows to escape from the flames and smoke.

Witnesses have described standing helplessly and paralyzed by the horror of people screaming for help or jumping out of windows as flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort

Guests said no fire alarms could be heard and there was no sign of firefighters for a long period The fire that killed 78 people at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the early hours of Monday is one of the deadliest disasters of its kind in Turkish history.