‘Several dozens’ believed to have been killed in fire at Swiss ski resort bar, say authorities

Silvia Costeloe
Reporting from Crans-Montana

The bar where the fire happened is a real institution here. It’s been around for at least 40 years.

It’s a big bar and it’s not posh. But this is quite a posh ski resort, there’s quite a lot of luxury here – it was famous in the 1980s for hosting the World Cup skiing, and that’s coming back.

A lot of the bars are luxurious, but the Constellation was not like that. It’s a really big bar, it’s got an upstairs with TV screens where people go and watch football matches.

Downstairs it just had a big bar where I suppose yesterday people would have been dancing and drinking.

You go there for beers – it’s a kind of young bar. It would’ve been a mixture of young people, Swiss people, people coming up from the valleys to celebrate here in Crans-Montana.

There would have been a mixture of nationalities as well, you would think.