Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI can confirm that one Australian has been injured and is receiving medical care and the family is receiving support, Australian consular support. I can\u2019t go into any further details for privacy reasons. The name of the individual is not being released at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed on Friday morning it was providing consular assistance to the injured person and their family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) is providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian that has been injured and is receiving medical care following the fire,\u201d a Dfat spokesperson said. \u201cOwing to our privacy obligations we are unable to provide further comment.<\/p>\n
\u201cDfat is making urgent inquiries with local authorities to determine whether any other Australians were impacted. We stand ready to provide consular assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Consular assistance can include communicating with or visiting local hospitals, local authorities, provision of lists of medical providers and assistance communicating with family members.<\/p>\n
Swiss police said the fire started at about 1.30am, local time (0030 GMT), in a bar popular with tourists called Le Constellation, which is located in the centre of the Valais resort.<\/p>\n
Video of the incident shows orange flames billowing from inside the ground-floor bar and lounge. Screams and loud music can be heard, and several people were seen collapsed outside the building.<\/p>\n
Some people who died in the blaze have not been able to be identified yet due to the severity of their burns.<\/p>\n
Australians concerned about family members who may have been caught up in the fire were advised to call Dfat\u2019s 24\/7 consular emergency support line on 1300 555 135.<\/p>\n
Swiss police said arson was not responsible for the blaze, which is thought to be the result of an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian is among the 115 people injured in a fire that tore through a crowded bar during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-385704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}