As flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey, friends Esra Karakisa and Halime Cetin stood helpless as the horror unfolded before them, with people leaning out of smoke-filled rooms pleading for help and others making the harrowing decision to jump.

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