People mourn behind flowers and letters near the sealed off Le Constellation bar, where a devastating fire left dead and injured during the New Year’s celebrations in Crans-Montana, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/ Antonio Calanni)

Videos and photos have begun to emerge showing the moments before the blaze tore through the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana during a New Year's party.

Investigators believe a devastating fire at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, which killed at least 40 people and injured 119 others, was likely triggered by champagne bottle sparklers igniting the ceiling.

Investigators say they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year's Eve revelers. Forty people were killed and another 119 injured.

About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar's New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday,

At least 40 people — including tourists — died in the fire which tore through Le Constellation Bar in Crans-Montana, a ski resort in Switzerland, during a New Year's Eve celebration

A tragic New Year's Eve fire at a Swiss ski resort bar claimed the life of 17-year-old Italian golfer Emanuele Galeppini. The blaze, which broke out at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, killed 40 people and injured over 100.