Swiss investigators believe sparklers on Champagne bottles started a deadly fire at a bar in an Alpine ski resort.

Police in Switzerland say a fire at a bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort area is believed to have left "several tens of people" dead and dozens more injured.

The local police said that their preliminary toll was about 40 dead, with roughly 115 injured, in the early morning blaze at a bar in the resort town of Crans-Montana.

In the aftermath of a fire inside a Swiss Alpine bar that killed 40 people celebrating the new year, survivors, friends and family members, the region’s top authorities and even Pope Leo have spoken to the public in remarks in French,

About 40 people were killed and another 119 injured in the blaze. Loved ones are still searching for people who were inside.

A look at bar and nightclub fires in the United States with significant death tolls and similar risks that led to the tragedies.

Geneva — Around 40 people died and more than 100 were injured in a bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana during New Year's celebrations, police said on Thursday, as the country struggled to grasp the scale of the tragedy.

Rhode Island State Fire Marshal Tim McLaughlin will never forget the Station nightclub fire, which took the lives of 100 concertgoers and injured more than 200 others more than 20 years ago.

The Swiss Alps bar fire killed dozens of "young people," police say. And Trump underwent a CT scan in October, not an MRI.