🔥 HE RAN BACK INTO H.3.L.L 🔥
A 19-year-old survivor didn’t flee the Swiss bar inferno — he turned around. Ferdinand Du Beaudiez had already escaped Le Constellation when he realized his brother, girlfriend, and friends were still inside. He covered his face and went back into the smoke.
What he saw froze him: blocked stairwells, collapsing bodies, heat exploding with every breath of air. “I couldn’t let them burn,” he said. Minutes later, he stumbled out again — but the screams behind him were gone. Forty lives vanished in those seconds.
Now hailed as a hero, Ferdinand admits the truth is darker: “The scars aren’t just on my skin.”
⚠️ The minute-by-minute account investigators are studying will haunt you — read it below. 👇👇
Who is Ferdinand Du Beaudiez? Meet hero who saved Swiss bar victims
17-year-old teen smashed windows and pulled people from the bar after the fire took hold at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana
Who is Ferdinand Du Beaudiez? Meet hero who saved Swiss bar victims
Horrifying viral videos circulated all over social media shows the moment a fire broke out at the New Year’s party at Swiss ski resort bar “Le Constellation” that claimed the lives of at least 47 people and injured more than 100.
The President of Switzerland, Guy Parmelin during a press conference on Thursday, January 1, 2026, called the disaster “one of the worst tragedies the country has ever experienced.”
Tributes continue to grow outside Le Constellation bar as investigators probe the cause of the blaze, which prosecutors say may have started when sparkling fountain candles on champagne bottles were held too close to the ceiling.
The incident portrayed a powerful firsthand account from the scene of one of Switzerland’s deadliest fires in recent history, reports The Sun.
A teen survivor of the tragic Swiss bar blaze has revealed how he ran back inside to save trapped victims of the massacre that killed 47 people.
A 19-year-old courageous student, Ferdinand Du Beaudiez, who saved more than ten victims, was partying with seven friends—including his brother and girlfriend—inside Le Constellation when it went up in flames in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana.
Ferdinand, from France, described the horrifying moments inside the blaze, saying: “I felt this fireball over my head… I couldn’t breathe!”
The fire reportedly started from fireworks on champagne bottles that ignited the bar’s highly flammable ceiling foam, spreading rapidly. Ferdinand criticized the bar’s lack of emergency exits, calling it “impossible for this place to operate safely.”
He rescued severely burned friends, while his brother remains in a coma.
Authorities are still investigating the cause and safety failures at the bar where nearly 50 people were killed and more than 100 injured during the tragedy.
Moreover, Ferdinand’s brother, Tristan Fisher, said his 17-year-old brother smashed windows and pulled people from the bar when the fire took hold.
As the fire tore through the venue, Ferdinand fought through the surging flames and made for a narrow staircase before scrambling to safety.
The teen, who was holidaying with family in the Alps, told The Sun, “I took my girlfriend’s arm, and I screamed to everyone, ‘Get out.’
“There were so many people on the stairs trying to get out that I lost her arm. I reached the top of the stairs but fell to the ground.”
But Ferdinand refused to leave his friends and brother to perish inside and ran back in to find them.
He informed that his brother knows of at least two students from his university who are missing.
Tristan is worried his brother’s mental health has been permanently affected: “He hasn’t properly spoken; he hasn’t properly slept since.”
The 20-year-old further added that his anger is directed towards Le Constellation, and he supports an investigation into the bar’s safety measures and says it has a lax attitude towards underage drinking.
‘I was burned in Swiss bar after watching ceiling catch fire – I dragged someon
A student has told how he heroically went backwards and forwards in and out the blazing Le Constellation bar in a selfless bid to save lives.
Ferdinand Du Beaudiez, 19, was partying inside the nightspot with six loved ones, including his brother, who remains in a coma, and his girlfriend, when the blaze broke out at around 1.30am on New Year’s Eve. Returning to the scene of the disaster for the first time, he today gave remarkable witness testimony about the moment the fire began.
And he told how he attempted to use water to put it out before witnessing scenes he compared to a war-zone.
Firefighters gather to leave flowers and candles at the scene after a fire broke out overnight at Le Constellation bar (
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ance and economics at Munich University, said: “I saw someone order these champagne bottles and I saw the waitresses take the bottles on their shoulders.
“Which led to get these fire devices on them near the roof, which was made of isolating foam. I saw the roof take fire and I went under the bar. I found some water in the mini fridge. At the moment I took the water, but the fire already spread on the whole roof. I threw some water, but it didn’t help anything.”
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Ferdinand explained he then went back down to take his girlfriend’s arm and shouted for people to get out.
“I took my girlfriend as hard as I could up the stairs,” he said. “There were so many people in the stairs that I lost her arm.”
He continued: “I fell on the ground. I could reach the top of the stairs and I fell on my stomach. My first reflex was to cover my face with my arms and I closed my eyes. At this moment I suppose someone opened the front door.”
‘My first reflex was to cover my face with my arms and I closed my eyes’ (
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Ferdinand recounted that this was the moment the fire “turned into a fireball”, and he felt his neck burning.
“This led to lots of air getting inside, which provided some air to the fire. And the fire turned into a fireball. I felt this fireball over my head, slightly burned my neck. At this moment the fire took all the breathable air and I couldn’t breathe anymore.”
In a “last hope”, Ferdinand said he took the foot of a table and “grabbed myself out”. In the horrific moments that followed, Ferdinand said he could not find anyone.
Mourners light candles at the scene (
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‘It felt like a war scene’
Heroically, the young student, originally from Paris, went back inside.
“I went back inside… I found someone, I suppose, I hope he was just unconscious,” he recalled. “But my prayers are that he’s still alive. I grabbed him in the stairs and I took him out.
“Firemen, policemen, firemen took him. And I still couldn’t find anyone. I went back inside but I couldn’t breathe anymore. There was too much smoke and I couldn’t breathe. So I went back out. I found a friend of mine who was really burned. He told me, where is your girlfriend?
The fire spread rapidly
“My girlfriend started rushing around. I found my girlfriend completely in shock. She was completely shocked. She told me my brother and his friends were near the bank over there. So I took both of them and joined my brother and his friends. They were all in shock, all very severely burned.”
“It was terrifying. It felt like a war scene. I saw people, burned people on the ground.”
“I was looking for my brother and my girlfriend and my friends. And I couldn’t think to let them stay in the fire when I was alive outside. So I couldn’t see them.”
‘It felt like a war scene. I saw people, burned people on the ground.’ (
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Swiss investigators are probing what caused a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left around 40 people dead and another 115 injured during a new year celebration. Most injuries, many of them serious, occurred when the blaze swept through the crowded bar less than two hours after midnight on Thursday in south-western Switzerland.
Describing going back inside the burning bar, Ferdinand said: “One time I found someone laying in the stairs. This person was completely burned. Clothes were burned. I couldn’t recognise if it was a woman or a man.
“I could only see teeth. I grabbed this person who was really heavy. It’s heavy, someone who doesn’t give back any tension. You know, when I grab your arm, you have tension.
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“Nothing was happening. So I took their arms out and I slid him on the ground. And he was being taken care of outside by a policeman and firemen.”
After this first ordeal, Ferdinand decided to go back in, but there was more smoke in the bar this time, making it harder to breathe.
‘I’m praying for my brother’
Ferdinand said he is now praying for his brother, who remains in hospital in a coma.
Speaking about his other pals, he added: “The other ones are now conscious. They are awake. They are being taken care of. They are in pain. But no one is in life danger. They will all get out and I’m praying for my brother.”
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Speaking about what he witnessed outside the bar on the street, Ferdinand said: “Policemen and firemen told us to go in the 1900 coffee on the other side of the street.
“The firemen started to sort out the less burned and the highest burned people. I saw my brother only once. He was taken care of by the person working inside the bar. She told me to get the firemen.
“By the time the firemen and I came back, he had already been taken. At this moment I spoke with firemen to know where my brother was going. What I could do because I was less injured. At this moment we waited. Anti-fire foil blankets were given to everyone.”
A woman lays down a flower with mourners outside the bar (
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Ferdinand explained that one of his friends was very calm, but that his girlfriend was “completely panicked”. He also said his brother’s friends were under the age of 18.
“I was looking around for them. At this moment I was running around in the streets trying to find anyone that could take care of them. At one point my girlfriend called me and said they are taking us away in a fireman car. I asked the fireman who was driving if I could go with them in the car.
