The New Year’s Day inferno that ripped through a crowded bar in southern Switzerland, killing at least 40 people and injuring 119, spread so rapidly because of what is known as a flashover, local ...
Swiss officials say the fire that tore through Le Constellation bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort on New Year’s Eve likely began from sparkling candles on champagne bottles. Beatrice Pilloud, the ...
(CNN) — Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a “flashover” – a dangerous phenomenon in which everything in a room ...