Fire hits luxury hotel in French Alps, scores evacuated


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Jan 2026

PARIS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - ‌Scores of people were evacuated after ‌a fire swept through a five-star ‌hotel in the ski resort of Courchevel in the French Alps late on Tuesday, officials said.

No one was ‍injured in the blaze ‍which started in the ‌attic of the Hotel des Grandes Alpes at ‍around ​7 p.m. (1800 GMT), the Prefecture of Savoie region said on its ⁠website.

Officials said over 90 people were ‌evacuated from the hotel last night, while the nearby ⁠Hotel ‍Le Lana, which has nearly 200 guests, was also being evacuated on Wednesday morning due ‍to risk as the fire ‌was still ongoing. Staff and guests took refuge in other hotels, the local government said.

131 firefighters have been deployed, it said.

Safety measures are under scrutiny in the region after a blaze in a bar in the ‌Swiss resort of Crans-Montana on New Year's Eve killed 40 people and injured more than 100, ​many of them teenagers.

(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Tomasz Janowski)

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