Skin is gone from Danielo Janjic’s cheeks, forehead, nose, ears. His hands are buried in layers of bandages, his face covered in ointments. Doctors have assured him that, with time and surgery, the burns will heal.
The searing trauma, however, will remain.
“I’m going to be scarred for life,” Mr. Janjic, 20, said recently from his hospital bed in Sion, a valley town about 15 miles from Crans-Montana, the ski resort in southern Switzerland where 40 people were killed and 119 were injured in a devastating New Year’s Day fire.
Many in this tight-knit community were still reeling on Sunday as the identities of more victims trickled out. A teenager from Milan who loved to ski. The daughter of a city councilor. A promising Swiss boxer. The granddaughter of a local architect.
Investigators have identified all of the victims, the police said on Sunday, although it did not publicly disclose their names. Most were teenagers. The youngest was a 14-year-old Swiss girl.
For many in Crans-Montana, things will never be the same.
“You cannot imagine seeing all those young people piled up in the bar, dead,” Capt. David Vocat, the local fire chief, said in an interview on Sunday evening. “I don’t wish it upon anyone.”
