The deadly Swiss bar fire may have spread quickly, hiking temperatures up to 1,000 degrees in a matter of seconds.

A flashover, the near-simultaneous ignition of everything in a room, is so fast that even firefighters in full protective gear are unlikely to survive, experts say.

As young partygoers rang in the New Year at a packed bar in the Swiss Alps, the celebrating quickly turned into a nightmare ...

At 1:30 a.m. on the 1st (local time), a fire broke out at the bar "Le Constellation" inside the Crans-Montana resort in Valais, southwestern Switzerland, killing 40 people and injuring 115. The scene ...

A New Year’s Eve fire at Le Constellation bar in Switzerland’s Crans-Montana resort killed at least 40 and injured 115.

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland, Jan 3 - When a devastating fire broke out in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana at around 1:30 ...

The blaze broke out during a New Year’s Eve party at a bar in Crans-Montana, a ski resort town in the Swiss Alps. About 40 ...

New footage has emerged that shows the moment a fatal fire broke out at a Swiss ski resort, which officials have since said ...

Paolo Campolo, a 55-year-old father in Switzerland, is recalling how a New Year’s Eve phone call from his daughter allowed ...

A 17-year-old survivor of the Le Constellation bar fire in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, said she saw "really horrible things" ...

Investigations have begun in Switzerland into what happened at the ski resort bar where at least 40 people died when the ...

Flashover fires—such as the one that struck the Constellation bar in Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve—are well known to ...