{"id":62843,"date":"2026-01-02T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/swiss-ski-resort-fire-survivors-and-witnesses-recount-scenes-like-a-horror-movie\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:52:59","slug":"swiss-ski-resort-fire-survivors-and-witnesses-recount-scenes-like-a-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/swiss-ski-resort-fire-survivors-and-witnesses-recount-scenes-like-a-horror-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss ski resort fire survivors and witnesses recount scenes &#8220;like a horror movie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Nathan Huguenin, 19, said he wasn&#8217;t able to sleep after escaping from the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/swiss-ski-resort-bar-fire-families-wait-dna-analysis-id-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">fire that tore through a packed Swiss ski resort<\/a><\/span> bar during a New Year&#8217;s party, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fire-switzerland-crans-montana-ski-resort-bar-le-constellation-deaths-new-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">killing dozens of people<\/a><\/span>, many in their teens and early 20s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s actually a nightmare, that I&#8217;m going to wake up,&#8221; Huguenin told journalists on Thursday. &#8220;I closed my eyes, and everything kept coming back to me, because I saw people being resuscitated. I saw people completely burned. I saw people dying. Honestly, it was quite complicated and quite difficult to stomach.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Le Constellation bar in the Swiss ski town of Crans-Montana was popular with a younger crowd. The legal age to drink wine and beer in the Valais region where it&#8217;s located is 16, so many young people had come to the bar to celebrate the new year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The owner of a nearby store <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/swizterland-bar-fire-latest-crans-montana-ski-resort-live-13489063?postid=10782370#liveblog-body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told British broadcaster Sky News<\/a> that Le Constellation was known for letting young people in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parisian tourist Axel Clavier, 16, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was at the bar when the fire broke out, and he felt like he was suffocating.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the situation as &#8220;total chaos,&#8221; Clavier said he managed to escape by forcing a window open with a table. He said one of his friends was killed, two or three remain missing, and he was &#8220;still in shock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/1d49ffe2-beb3-4d1e-8abd-c34d1a328441\/thumbnail\/620x413\/3bd25608e6cb646f3f2100492758c853\/gettyimages-2254286824.jpg#\" alt=\"Fire In Bar At Swiss Ski Resort Of Crans-Montana Kills Dozens \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/1d49ffe2-beb3-4d1e-8abd-c34d1a328441\/thumbnail\/620x413\/3bd25608e6cb646f3f2100492758c853\/gettyimages-2254286824.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/1d49ffe2-beb3-4d1e-8abd-c34d1a328441\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/94be4cb65d5270bc4d5561889b93bd94\/gettyimages-2254286824.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Mourners gather to leave flowers and candles at the scene after a fire broke out overnight at Le Constellation bar on Jan. 1, 2026 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Harold Cunningham \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A witness named Alexis, 18, who saw the fire from outside Le Constellation, told local media that many people inside had tried to break through the windows, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15427691\/Couple-disaster-waiting-happen-bar-47-died-Swiss-New-Year-inferno-links-UK.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a real flame coming out. It was coming out and &#8230; in fact, people were running through these flames,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You could see the shadows. People were trying to break the glass with chairs in the bar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another witness, who chose not to share his name, told CBS News&#8217; partner network BBC News that he thought his brother was in the bar when the fire broke out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came and tried to break the window to help people to exit, and after that I went in,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyml77ml7jo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the BBC<\/a>. Inside, he said he &#8220;saw people burning &#8230; I found people burning from head to foot, no clothes anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said his brother had not been hurt, and that he could easily have been in the bar himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went in this bar every day this week,&#8221; he told the BBC. &#8220;The day I didn&#8217;t go, it burned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oscar, 19, also witnessed the fire and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/video\/we-had-three-chances-to-get-in-but-we-didnt-teenager-on-swiss-fire-horror-13489474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Sky News<\/a> Le Constellation was &#8220;a very popular bar with teenagers, so I think it&#8217;s a highly concentrated place where you find a lot of teenagers. That&#8217;s why we wanted to go there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/2837b1d8-d32f-4272-8065-58d44f465382\/thumbnail\/620x413\/76cfe4fe3d5b2d36a21ebf66d20b5354\/swiss-ski-resort-fire-2254287043.jpg#\" alt=\"Fire In Bar At Swiss Ski Resort Of Crans-Montana Kills Dozens \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/2837b1d8-d32f-4272-8065-58d44f465382\/thumbnail\/620x413\/76cfe4fe3d5b2d36a21ebf66d20b5354\/swiss-ski-resort-fire-2254287043.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/2837b1d8-d32f-4272-8065-58d44f465382\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/2ce5b1586ed1c80bd4d62dc99c0816bb\/swiss-ski-resort-fire-2254287043.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Forensic police and other officials are seen at the site of a New Year&#8217;s Day fire that broke out at Le Constellation bar, Jan. 1, 2026, in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Harold Cunningham\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said he and his friends had tried to get into the bar on New Year&#8217;s Eve, but had been told it was full.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we knew, like, other ways in,&#8221; Oscar said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he tried using a code to access a side door, and getting someone already in the bar to open another entrance for him and his friends, but nothing worked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like three minutes later, we&#8217;re just in front, like three meters away \u2014 it exploded. It&#8217;s crazy,&#8221; said Oscar. &#8220;Many people tried running out and people were banging on the windows, because it&#8217;s like a winter garden \u2026 It&#8217;s like a semi-outside spot but still with windows. And everyone was banging on the windows and stuff. Screaming. It was like a horror movie. But they couldn&#8217;t get out. I think the windows were too thick. Then people, like, fell on each other coming out, fully burned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even people ask me: Am I burned in my face, am I burned?&#8221; Oscar recalled. &#8220;Because I think the adrenaline made them not feel anything. Because they were completely, I don&#8217;t know, fully burned and they didn&#8217;t feel anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/2006781329430516163?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> the EU would help provide medical assistance. 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