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German Burn Centers Begin Taking Crans-Montana Fire Patients

Hospitals prepare for prolonged care under a coordinated request covering about 40 critically injured people.

Overview

  • Berlin’s Unfallkrankenhaus plans to receive three severely burned patients on Saturday, according to a hospital spokesman.
  • Germany’s burn-center network reports around 40 treatment requests from Switzerland, with patients already in care in Stuttgart, Tübingen, Ludwigshafen, Leipzig, and Halle.
  • Bochum’s Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil has offered two beds as transfers proceed after initial stabilization and sterile wound management in first-receiving hospitals.
  • Investigators say sparklers attached to champagne bottles likely ignited the bar’s ceiling during celebrations that drew about 200 people.
  • Authorities report about 40 dead and 119 injured, many of them adolescents and young adults, and clinicians anticipate multiple surgeries, extended ICU stays, and months of rehabilitation.