A fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, with dozens of people feared dead and about 100 more injured, most seriously, police said.

Another 115 were injured, most of them seriously, in the fire at a bar in the international ski and golf resort in Switzerland.

It has been a somber start to the new year in Switzerland. Some 40 people are dead and more than 115 are injured after a fire tore through Le Constellation bar in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana as New Year celebrations took place early Thursday morning.

ALPINE, Calif. – A multigenerational family living at a historic Alpine home is grieving after a fire tore through their property Tuesday, but they are remaining thankful no one was injured. “If we go through a disaster like this, it’s the best scenario.

The head of the hospital which received casualties from the horrific Swiss ski resort bar blaze told AFP on Friday there were not only burns but injuries such as fractures as people ran for their lives.