Eyewitnesses have come forward with harrowing accounts of a devastating fire that swept through a bar in Switzerland earlier this week, resulting in numerous fatalities and injuries.

An 18-year-old man shared his terrifying experience, saying, “I thought my little brother was inside, so I rushed to break a window to help people escape. I went in afterwards,” he recounted to the BBC. “I saw people engulfed in flames… people burned from head to toe, without any clothes left,” he described, adding, “It was incredibly shocking.”

Fortunately, the young man’s brother escaped unharmed, according to reports. Reflecting on his routine, he mentioned, “I went to this bar every day this week—the one day I didn’t go, it caught fire.”

Another witness, Daniella, was with her husband on their way home from dinner when they encountered the unfolding tragedy, as reported by the BBC.

An individual named Daniella was heading home with her husband from a dinner when she witnessed some of the horror, the BBC reported.

Police officers and rescuers stand next to a firefighters’ vehicle on the site of a fire that ripped through the bar Le Constellation in Crans-Montana on January 1, 2026.  (Maxime Schmid / AFP via Getty Images)

“People were running in all directions, screaming and crying. I saw several people being carried out on stretchers,” she told the outlet. “A young man came up to me and said he’d seen hell — things he would never forget. And then I just froze.”

Gianni Campolo, 19, headed to the bar to assist first responders after getting a call from a friend who escaped the fire, according to the Associated Press.

Mourners gather to leave flowers and candles at the scene after a fire broke out overnight at Le Constellation bar on Jan. 1, 2026, in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.  (Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)

“I have seen horror, and I don’t know what else would be worse than this,” Campolo informed TF1, according to the AP.

Ferdinand Du Beaudiez, a 19-year-old who escaped from the fire in the bar, said that he went back in to look for his brother, his girlfriend and others, and noted that he “couldn’t think to let them stay in the fire when I was alive outside.” 

He said the first time he headed back in, he found a person “laying in the stairs” who “was completely burned, clothes were burned” — he explained that he could not tell if the individual was a man or a woman. He “slid” the person “on the ground, and he was being taken care of, um, outside … ” the survivor recalled. 

This photograph shows the area around the bar Le Constellation after a fire ripped through the venue during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans-Montana, on Jan. 1, 2026.  (Maxime Schmid / AFP via Getty Images)

The second time he headed back in, he experienced “more smoke,” and he “could breathe less,” he said, explaining he “went in, couldn’t see anything and went straight out.”

He eventually found his girlfriend, who told him where his brother was.