{"id":346229,"date":"2026-01-01T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346229\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:52:06","slug":"switzerland-ski-fire-latest-several-dozen-believed-to-have-been-killed-in-crans-montana-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346229\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland ski fire latest: &#8216;Several dozen&#8217; believed to have been killed in Crans-Montana bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le Constellation is a &#8216;real institution&#8217; where people watch footballpublished at 08:26 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:26 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bbc164c4-1da2-410b-802c-84cc8f88e202.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Silvia Costeloe<br \/>Reporting from Crans-Montana<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bar where the fire happened is a real institution here. It&#8217;s been around for at least 40 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a big bar and it&#8217;s not posh. But this is quite a posh ski resort, there&#8217;s quite a lot of luxury here &#8211; it was famous in the 1980s for hosting the World Cup skiing, and that&#8217;s coming back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A lot of the bars are luxurious, but the Constellation was not like that. It&#8217;s really big, it&#8217;s got an upstairs with TV screens where people go and watch football matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Downstairs it just had a big bar where I suppose yesterday people would have been dancing and drinking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You go there for beers &#8211; it&#8217;s a kind of young bar. It would&#8217;ve been a mixture of young people, Swiss people, people coming up from the valleys to celebrate here in Crans-Montana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There would have been a mixture of nationalities as well, you would think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le Constellation is a &#8216;real institution&#8217; where people watch footballpublished at 08:26 GMT 08:26 GMT Silvia CosteloeReporting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-346229","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}