{"id":223321,"date":"2026-01-06T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/223321\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:50:08","slug":"ski-bar-not-checked-for-five-years-before-deadly-fire-swiss-officials-say-as-they-ban-sparklers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/223321\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski bar not checked for five years before deadly fire, Swiss officials say, as they ban sparklers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened at Crans-Montana?published at 09:00 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:00 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forty people were killed 116 injured when a fire ripped through a popular bar in a Swiss ski resort in the early hours of New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bar, Le Constellation in the resort of Crans-Montana, was full of people ringing in the New Year, when the blaze began in the basement area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victims range in age from 14 to 39 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A criminal investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjdjl303zxlo\" class=\"ssrcss-f0xzi3-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been launched into the French couple<\/a> who managed the bar &#8211; a venue known to be popular with a younger crowd in the ski resort town, where the drinking age is 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sparklers on bottles being carried too close to the ceiling were the likely cause of the fire, a preliminary investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage shows person trying to put out flames during deadly Swiss bar fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened at Crans-Montana?published at 09:00 GMT 09:00 GMT Forty people were killed 116 injured when a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-223321","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\/223321","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=223321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}