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Crans-Montana Fire Survivor Posts From ICU, Honoring Victims and Thanking Caregivers

Her message highlights the ongoing struggle to heal for Italian students still hospitalized in Milan or Zurich.

Overview

  • Eleonora Palmieri, 29, posted from Niguarda’s intensive care unit that survivors are fighting to heal day by day while remembering those who died.
  • She expressed gratitude to her family, boyfriend, and medical teams, sharing a video that contrasts pre-fire moments with images from her hospital recovery.
  • Palmieri was rescued during the evacuation by her boyfriend, Filippo Bonifacio, who brought her first to the hospital in Sion before her transfer to Milan.
  • Other Italian patients remain hospitalized: students Francesca, Sofia, and Kean at Niguarda; Leonardo Bove at the Zurich Burn Center; and 15-year-old Elsa Rubino in Zurich, described as stable yet in a delicate condition, intubated and in an induced coma after two operations including intestinal surgery.
  • Emergency psychologists are assisting students returning to class, and the families of Leonardo and Elsa received a visit from President Sergio Mattarella.