{"id":214982,"date":"2026-01-01T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/214982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:21:12","slug":"switzerland-ski-fire-latest-several-dozen-believed-dead-at-crans-montana-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/214982\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland ski fire latest: Several dozen believed dead at Crans-Montana bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A time of celebration has become a nightmarepublished at 13:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9f11d712-55cc-4986-b952-4f670741eab5.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Imogen Foulkes<br \/>Reporting from Geneva<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve been hearing more about from the Swiss authorities about the catastrophic fire in Crans Montana. A team of specialist forensic investigators from Zurich is now at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Initial evidence does not suggest an attack, the authorities have said, but a rapidly spreading or &#8220;flash over&#8221; fire, in which anything combustible ignites very quickly.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finding out exactly how the fire started, and why so many people died, is a matter of urgency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So too is identifying the victims; the Swiss police say &#8220;dozens&#8221; are believed to have died, among them tourists, and very many of them young. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crans Montana\u2019s le Constellation Bar is popular with 16 &#8211; 25 year olds, who will have been out enjoying the start of 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile more than 100 injured have been transported to hospitals across Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a sign of how serious this incident is, the authorities have appealed to people across the country not to overburden the health service, because emergency wards, and in particular the burns units, are full. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As one emergency worker put it: a time of celebration has become a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ambulances parked near site of fire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4fd128bb-4c69-47f5-9b54-f7ede1872d1a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3011\" height=\"1693\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A time of celebration has become a nightmarepublished at 13:37 GMT 13:37 GMT Imogen FoulkesReporting from Geneva We\u2019ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-214982","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}