7 h. ago Horror new Swiss ski resort fire photos show exact moment sparklers start blaze

Horrific footage taken inside the Le Constellation bar shows the moment a sparkler appears to set the ceiling on fire, and people desperately trying to put out the ensuing flames

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9 h. ago Lost seconds before Swiss ski resort inferno as youngsters filmed fire instead of fleeing: New footage shows flames spreading on ceiling as officials confirm sparklers started the blaze

The footage, taken by French economics student Ferdinand Du Beaudiez, shows flames ripping through the Crans-Montana club as revellers below continue singing, dancing and shouting.

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14 h. ago Chilling Swiss ski resort bar fire picture shows shows 'exact moment' champagne sparkler started blaze

An explosion in the basement of Le Constellation nightclub in Crans-Montana claimed at least 47 lives during New Year celebrations

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15 h. ago Swiss bar fire picture shows 'precise moment' sparkler started blaze that left 47 dead in ski resort

An explosion in the basement of Le Constellation nightclub in Crans-Montana claimed at least 47 lives during New Year celebrations

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16 h. ago Exact moment fire starts in Swiss club as 'disaster waiting to happen' blaze kills 47

The owners of the Swiss nightclub where at least 47 people have died in a fire have been revealed as a husband and wife French couple who are powerful figures in the Swiss hospitality industry

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28 h. ago New video shows deadly 'flashover' fire in Swiss inferno deathtrap that had 6.5 out of ten for safety and where at least 47 died and 115 injured

The basement venue, Le Constellation in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, was fitted with wooden furnishings and foam-style ceiling material and had only one narrow staircase.

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30 h. ago New video shows deadly 'flashover' fire in Swiss inferno deathtrap that had 6.5 out of ten for safety and where at least 47 died and injured 115

The basement venue, Le Constellation in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, was fitted with wooden furnishings and foam-style ceiling material and had only one narrow staircase.

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31 h. ago Swiss inferno deathtrap had a 6.5 out of ten for safety: Deadly factors that allowed a 'flashover' that killed at least 47 and injured 115

The blaze tore through the basement of Le Constellation in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana shortly after 1.30am, as packed celebrations were under way.

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1 week ago Shocking pictures show inside beauty salon destroyed in gangland firebombing

Logan Carlin, 24, started the blaze at the Belle Cheveux beauty parlour in Albert Street, Edinburgh, on March 6.

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2 w. ago Blaze breaks out at pork scratchings factory as huge flames erupt and 50 firefighters race to scene

A MAJOR fire has broken out at a pork scratchings factory - with plumes of smoke seen pouring out of the building. Roughly fifty firefighters are tackling the blaze at the factory in Walsall, West Midlands, this evening. The blaze is understood to have started at the G Simmons and Sons Pork Scratchings factory. Initial...

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3 w. ago Young mum 'burned to death in flat fire' after posting message about boyfriend

Sabrina Aylen Vega died in a fire at a flat in Puerto Deseado in south-eastern Argentina, and a murder investigation has been launched after it appears the blaze was started deliberately

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3 w. ago Mum, 29, and her three children murdered by sister’s ex after he poured petrol & torched family home

A MAN who killed his former partner’s sister and her three children by setting fire to their house in a botched revenge attack has been found guilty of murder. Sharaz Ali was “motivated by jealousy and fuelled by drink and drugs” when he started the “catastrophic” blaze at the home of Bryonie Gawith and her...

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3 w. ago Employee arrested after allegedly setting fire to store the day before Thanksgiving

A supermarket employee has been arrested and charged with arson after a shelf full of kitchen roll was set on fire, starting a huge blaze in a busy store as shoppers prepared for Thanksgiving.

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