Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year's Eve party left 40 people dead and more than 100 injured, authorities said Saturday. The ...

Nathan Huguenin, 19, said he wasn't able to sleep after escaping from the fire that tore through a packed Swiss ski resort bar during a New Year's party, killing dozens of people, many in their teens ...

An official said the sparklers were attached to bottles of champagne held too close to the ceiling. Forty people died and more than 100 were injured. Many of the victims were teenagers. Ségolène Le ...

At least 47 people were killed in a Swiss ski resort nightclub explosion sparked by a champagne bottle topped with “birthday candles” — that was raised too close to the low wooden ceiling, witnesses ...

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 ignites ...

Nestor Fischer, 17, forced open a blocked door at Le Constellation, the Swiss bar that caught fire on New Year’s Day By Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Crans-Montana, Switzerland Nestor Fischer ...

The fatal fire that engulfed a Swiss bar on New Year's Eve would likely have killed even a firefighter in full protective gear — let alone the hundreds of young people freely celebrating inside. At ...

Forty people were killed and 119 were injured in the blaze. Investigators probing the deadly New Year's Day fire at a Swiss resort bar are looking into the possibility that it started from sparklers ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains descriptions and video that readers may find disturbing. As young partygoers rang in the New Year at a packed bar in the Swiss Alps, the celebrating quickly turned ...

Officials believe sparklers on top of champagne bottles are to blame for the bar explosion and fire that left around 40 dead and more than 100 others injured at a New Year's Eve party in Crans-Montana ...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss investigators believe sparkling flares atop Champagne bottles started a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left 40 people dead and another 119 injured ...