Couple, 69, scramble barefoot over hotel roof to escape fire

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A British couple narrowly escaped death when a fire broke out at their hotel just days into their £1,500 Turkish holiday.  Daniel and Christine Steel were woken by shouting and realized dense smoke was filling their room.  Unable to hear smoke alarms, they had to scramble barefoot across the hotel roof to safety.  They were later hospitalized for smoke inhalation.  The couple's clothes and belongings were destroyed in the fire.  Daniel, who had previously survived a major fire at Bradford City's Valley Parade stadium, believes they are "lucky to be alive."  Jet2holidays confirmed that all guests were evacuated, with three taken to the hospital as a precaution.

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00:00What?

00:02That could have been it, that could have been how it all happened.

00:04I don't know. Me and him are seconded this year.

00:06I'm going to say we've got, we're going to say something that's working at this rate.

00:10This is probably anything, just bug it, buy it, do it, move it, build it, whatever it is.

00:17What do we call it, Phoebe?

00:19Phoebe, bug it, bug it, bug it, buy it.

00:22That's it, you just don't know, do you?

00:24Spire away from it as you can.

00:26So...

00:27Yeah.

00:28But I mean, I'm going to...

00:30I don't know what will happen, whether we'll have to come.

00:37We'll have to kind of want to come home now.

00:39I mean, all the stuff in his room is going to be a smoke and what have you.

00:46Clothes and water, so...

00:48But anyway, we're safe.

00:50I don't, you know...

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