Emergency protocols were quickly activated, and all 169 passengers, six crew members, and one engineer evacuated the aircraft using an escape slide. The National Fire Agency reported that three ...

The Hughes Fire broke out around 11 a.m. on Wednesday ... 12:56 p.m.: Drivers looking to escape the flames were met with gridlocked traffic on the 5 Freeway. 12:55 p.m.: "Don't wait to evacuate ...

Sickening reports emerged of some of the 238 registered guests jumping from windows to escape the flames ... The interior minister said the fire started at 03:27am (12:27am GMT) and firefighters ...

The fire appears to have started in the restaurant of the hotel, with people struggling to escape because of its cliff-side location Two of the victims died after jumping from the building in a ...

A survivor who managed to escape the flames told local media that no alarms rang at the hotel when the fire started, complaining of a lack of any safety measures such as fire stairs or smoke ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday ... the department is prepared to pivot to Plan B if needed. "The Plan B that they would ...

Officials say at least two of them died after jumping from the building to escape the flames. More than 50 others were also injured in the fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort ...

Witnesses claimed that the building lacked a proper fire escape and that alarms and sprinklers failed to function. Videos from the scene showed some guests on lower floors tying bedsheets together to ...

IPOH: Four family members escaped unhurt when their house in Tambun here caught fire. A Perak Fire and Rescue Department spokesman said a distress call was made at 2.04am on Wednesday (Jan 22 ...

The hotel was engulfed in smoke, making it difficult for guests to locate the fire escape, he said. “I cannot reach some of my students. I hope they are OK,” the ski instructor told the station.

Ali Yerlikaya said at least 51 other people were injured in the disaster. A survivor of a fire that raged through a 12-storey hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey described his frantic ...

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