Happy new year from Switzerland
in Ventiravel Onn Nov!
un felic Ann Növ!
Bonne Année!
und rütsched guet übere!

Season’s greetings from Adelaide, neckervd.

The fire in Crans Montana is shocking. So many killed and injured. Such a sad start to the year

There was a fire at Bellwald too, just 2 days ago.
The gondolas had to be stopped

Crans-Montana:
around 40 dead people, some of them extremely didfficult to identify
around 100 severly burned patients.The intensive care units in the hospitals of the Cantgon of Valais are full.
People has been transferred by helicopter to the University Hospitals of Lausanne (CHUV) and Berne (Insel).
A speciial broadcast of Swi9ss Televion will take place in 1 hr..

Patients have also be transferred to specialized hospitals in France and Belgium.

Of course, it makes more sense to hospitalize people who must stay in hospitals for several months close to their families.
In the first minutes, locals tried to do their best in order pull people out of the flam inferno, but this help was limited because they had no masks.
The police and the fire brigade arrived within 5 minutes, followed by physicians, but that was already too late for many burned and smoke poisened people.
The first helicopters of Air Glaciers arrived some 15 minutes later, followed by those of Air Zermatt and Rega. Within 1 hour, there were 48 helicopters on duty.
Severe cases were flown to the intensive care units of the hospitals at Lausanne an Zurich, specialized in the treatment of extensive skin burnings, the others to the intensive care units of the Hopital du Valais at Sion, Sierre and Visp.
Still in the night, specialists begun to try to fin out the identity of the victims and a psychological help team was formed.
The Institute of forensic medecine and forensic science of Zurich (the best in Switzerland) began to work and to investigate.
The first press conference took place at noon, the second one in late afternoon (with orators who hadn't slept for more than 36 hrs).