40 Confirmed Dead In Fire At Swiss Ski Resort During New Year’s Celebrations

This is truly a tragic way to bring in the New Year.

A fire at a Swiss Alps ski resort has left 40 people dead and dozens more injured.

The fire started at the bar Le Constellation in Crans-Montana, which is a luxury ski resort town in the Swiss Alps.

NBC News reported more details on the tragic fire:

At least 40 people are dead and more the 100 others were severely injured after a fire broke out during a New Year’s Eve celebration at a bar in a Swiss Alps resort, authorities said Thursday.

Calling it an “unprecedented tragedy,” Valais canton police commander Frédéric Gisler warned the death toll could rise because many of the injured are in critical condition.

Meanwhile, Gisler said at a news conference, “the priority will be to identify those who lost their lives.”

Swiss President Guy Parmelin said that many of the victims were young people and the victims include Swiss residents as well as tourists from neighboring countries and elsewhere.

“Behind these numbers are faces, names, families, destinies brutally interrupted,” Parmelin said at the press conference.

Here’s a video of the blaze:

Tragedy in Swiss Alps: 40 Dead, 100 Injured in New Year’s Eve Fire

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — At least 40 people were killed and around 100 others injured, many seriously, after a fire tore through a crowded bar during New Year’s celebrations in the Swiss ski resort town of… pic.twitter.com/F1fBsHqfuH

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 1, 2026

ABC News covered the story too:

Around 40 people were killed and 115 others were injured early on New Year's Day, when a fire ripped through a popular bar in a resort town in the Swiss Alps, police said.
@TSoufiBurridge has the latest. https://t.co/rb07K5zIDw pic.twitter.com/Y2OXigVq3p

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) January 1, 2026

The Daily Mail reported a sparkler may have started the fire:

Around 40 people are feared dead and 100 others injured after an explosion at a luxury ski resort in Switzerland during New Year’s Eve celebrations.

A woman who witnessed the blaze start said fire broke out when a waiter, dancing on a colleague’s shoulders, held a sparkler too close to the ceiling.

The blast occurred at around 1.30am local time (12.30am GMT) in the basement of ‘Le Constellation’ bar, located in the centre of the Alpine town of Crans-Montana.

Foreign tourists are among the victims, according to local officials.

Swiss daily Blick cited a doctor at the scene suggesting that the death toll could be in the ‘dozens’, while daily Le Nouvelliste said its sources were describing ‘a heavy toll’, with ‘around 40 dead and 100 injured’.

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