Two young French women who were in the bar of the Swiss ski resort of Crans Montana where a deadly fire broke out this morning New Year’s Eve They have told how the fire occurred and spread, how they fled and the panic that was generated among the attendees who were trying to flee. “Everyone was screaming,” one of these two young women highlighted this Thursday when telling the French channel BFMTV what they experienced and that the origin of the tragedy was some walking sticks or pyrotechnic devices that decorated champagne bottles, reports EFE.
Emma and Albane, who were celebrating the New Year’s Eve at Le Constellation bar They observed that the fire started when one of those flares approached the roof, which was made of wood.
“In a few dozen seconds,” one of them indicated, the flames spread throughout the nightclub, which was in the basement of a premises that consisted of two floors. Then the fire also spread to the ground floor in two or three minutes.
The two French clients ran out of the store screaming and, when they looked back, they saw that there were several people burning, around 200 which they estimate was in the bar at the time of the events.
One of them fell on the stairs, pushed by a movement of those who wanted to evacuate the bar, and hurt her knee.
They broke the windows to get out
Like the door was very small To give way to all those who wanted to escape the flames, one of the people who were there broke one of the windows.
According to the story of both girls, the firefighters and the police arrived “in a few minutes” after the start of the tragedy that seemed accidental to them. They didn’t hear any explosion.
Swiss authorities have announced that the fire caused “dozens of deaths” and “a hundred people injured, many seriously.”
The French Foreign Ministry has indicated in a statement that it has news that there are at least two French people among the injured, who have been immediately assisted by the Swiss health services, without ruling out other victims.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has expressed on his
