Tourists at a hotel resort in Pendle were forced to flee the premises as a fire spread throughout the building, local news site pendletoday.co.uk has reported.
The four-storey Penhallow hotel in Newquay, in Cornwall, faced a quickly spreading fire in the early hours of Saturday.
The flames moved so rapidly that some resident holidaymakers were forced to jump from the building's windows.
So far one casualty had been reported, but two further people out of the 87 residents are missing and unaccounted for.
A group of holidaymakers from East Lancashire had managed to escape the blaze safely.
The fire was still smouldering in the earlier hours of Monday morning, after over 120 fire-fighters had attempted to control it.
According to the owners of the hotel, Holdsworth Hotels, the building's smoke detectors had been checked and approved by inspectors only two weeks ago.
Until the fire is completely put out, authorities won't be able to make their way inside to search for any other possible survivors.
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