{"id":118635,"date":"2026-08-21T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118635\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:09:18","slug":"five-missing-after-fire-completely-destroys-apartments-in-swiss-alpine-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118635\/","title":{"rendered":"Five missing after fire \u2018completely destroys\u2019 apartments in Swiss Alpine town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five people are missing<\/a> after a huge fire <\/a>tore through a residential block housing a restaurant and apartments in a Swiss Alpine town<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eight others were injured in the blaze, which broke out in Thusis, a part of the eastern canton of Graub\u00fcnden, which attracts visitors throughout the year for its Alpine scenery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fire<\/a> broke out just after midnight, where emergency services<\/a> were alerted at around 00:00 local time on Friday, according to the local police service.<\/p>\n

The severity of the blaze saw almost 100 firefighters from various local networks rush to the scene.<\/p>\n

\"Five<\/p>\n

Five people have been reported as missing after the outbreak of the fire (Kantonspolizei Graubunden)<\/p>\n

Fourteen people managed to escape the burning building, the Graub\u00fcnden Cantonal police said.<\/p>\n

Two of those who escaped suffered serious injuries, while two others were moderately injured and a further four sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n

The injured were taken to hospitals in Chur, Thusis, Ilanz and Zurich.<\/p>\n

\"Large<\/p>\n

Large amounts of smoke were seen rising from the residential complex (Kantonspolizei Graubunden)<\/p>\n

Firefighters faced difficult conditions inside the building after the stairwell collapsed, with police stating that the building had been “completely destroyed” by the blaze.<\/p>\n

The collapse of the stairwell made access to parts of the property more difficult as emergency crews worked to bring the fire under control.<\/p>\n

Because of this, the roof of the block had to be opened using a crane to tackle the flames from above.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A crane was used to lift off the roof of the building and quell the blaze (Kantonspolizei Graubunden)<\/p>\n

Specialist teams are working through the heavily damaged structure as the search continues for the missing.<\/p>\n

Authorities have not said whether they believe those missing were inside the building when the fire broke out.<\/p>\n

While initial findings indicate the blaze began on the second floor, investigators have not yet established what caused it.<\/p>\n

Police and prosecutors have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fire.<\/p>\n

In a separate incident late on Thursday morning a fire broke out in the kitchen of an apartment in a building in the northern city of Schaffhausen.<\/p>\n

“Eleven people were injured, nine of whom have been taken to hospital,” local police said. They added that a police officer was among the injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people are missing after a huge fire tore through a residential block housing a restaurant and apartments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[10324,51509,57760,57761,57762,41,17,57556],"class_list":["post-118635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-emergency-services","tag-graubunden","tag-kantonspolizei-graubunden","tag-local-police-service","tag-residential-block","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-thusis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117134371568164548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}