As flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey, friends Esra Karakisa and Halime Cetin watched helplessly as the horror unfolded before them. Some people were leaning out of smoke-filled rooms pleading for help,

STORY: Turkey has detained eleven people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed at least 79 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, authorities said.The fire took place at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort - a 12-story hotel which had 238 registered guests.

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