Witnesses and survivors of the fire at a ski resort in Switzerland recount scenes

Nathan Huguenin, 19, said he couldn’t sleep after escaping from the Fire destroys crowded Swiss ski resort bar during a New Year’s party, killing dozens of peoplemany of them in their teens and 20s.

“I feel like it’s actually a nightmare, that I’m going to wake up,” Huguenin told reporters Thursday. “I closed my eyes and everything came back to me, because I saw people being brought back to life. I saw people completely burned. I saw people dying. Honestly, it was quite complicated and quite difficult to digest.”

The Le Constellation bar in the Swiss ski town of Crans-Montana was popular with the younger crowd. The legal age for drinking wine and beer in the Valais region where it is located is 16 years old, so many young people came to the bar to celebrate the new year.

The owner of a nearby shop told British broadcaster Sky News that Le Constellation was known for letting young people in.

Parisian tourist Axel Clavier, 16, told The News on Thursday that he was in the bar when the fire broke out and felt like he was suffocating.

Clavier described the situation as “total chaos” and said he managed to escape by forcing a window with a table. He said one of his friends was killed, two or three are still missing and that he was “still in shock.”

A witness named Alexis, 18, who saw the fire from outside Le Constellation, told local media that many people inside had tried to break the windows, according to the British tabloid Daily Mail.

“It was a real flame coming out. It came out and… people were actually running through these flames,” he said. “You could see the shadows. People were trying to break the glass with chairs in the bar.”

Another witness, who chose not to share his name, told News themezone sister network BBC News that he thought his brother was in the bar when the fire broke out.

“I came and tried to break the window to help people out, and then I went in,” he told the BBC. Inside, he said he “saw people burning… I found people burning from head to toe, already without clothes.”

He said his brother had not been injured and that he himself could have easily been at the bar.

“I went to this bar every day this week,” he told the BBC. “The day I didn’t go, it burned down.”

Oscar, 19, also witnessed the fire and told Sky News that Le Constellation was “a very popular bar with teenagers, so I think it’s a very concentrated place where a lot of teenagers are. That’s why we wanted to go there.”

He said he and his friends had tried to get into the bar on New Year’s Eve but were told it was full.

“But we knew other ways to get in,” Oscar said.

He said he tried to use a code to access a side door and get someone already at the bar to open another entrance for him and his friends, but nothing worked.

“About three minutes later, we were right in front of it, like three meters away; it exploded. It’s crazy,” Oscar said. “A lot of people tried to run out and hit the windows, because it’s like a conservatory… It’s like a semi-outdoor place but still with windows. And everyone was banging on the windows and stuff. Screaming. It was like a horror movie. But they couldn’t get out. I think the windows were too thick. Then people, like, fell on each other on the way out, completely burned.”

“People even ask me: Do I burn my face, do I burn?” Oscar remembered. “Because I think the adrenaline made them feel nothing. Because they were completely, I don’t know, completely burned out and they didn’t feel anything.”

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU Commission, said the EU would help provide medical assistance. A Swiss official said Friday that 50 of the injured have been transferred to burn centers outside Switzerland.