{"id":671169,"date":"2026-01-03T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671169\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:46:10","slug":"crans-montana-police-identify-first-four-victims-of-swiss-ski-resort-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671169\/","title":{"rendered":"Crans-Montana: Police identify first four victims of Swiss ski resort fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The likely cause of the fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq6v41jg9jzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was sparklers on champagne bottles being carried too close to the ceiling<\/a>, a preliminary investigation of how the fire began found. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Switzerland&#8217;s President Guy Parmelin called it &#8220;one of the worst tragedies&#8221; experienced by the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Further details about the identified victims, including names, have not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the dead and missing are many teenagers. Le Constellation was 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\">On Friday, police said 113 of the injured have been identified, and include 71 Swiss, 14 French and 11 Italian citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A teenage golfer from Italy was the first death to be named, though Swiss and Italian officials have so far declined to confirm his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A helpline has been set up for concerned families: +41 848 112 117<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The likely cause of the fire was sparklers on champagne bottles being carried too close to the ceiling,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-671169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115831241733070383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}