Fondue Cooker Blamed For Swiss Glacier 3000 Eatery Blaze

2025-10-28 02:18:58

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) A fondue cooker is thought to have started a fire that devastated the Glacier 3000 restaurant in the Swiss Les Diablerets ski resort in 2022. This content was published on October 28, 2025 - 13:26 3 minutes Keystone-SDA

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The restaurant's former catering manager will have to answer charges of negligence.

The woman in her 40s, who is presumed innocent, was summoned to appear before the Eastern Vaud Court in Vevey on November 10. The causes of the fire are reported in the indictment, which was published today by the French-language newspapers 24 heures and Le Temps.

The investigation, conducted by the School of Criminal Sciences (ESC) of the University of Lausanne, concluded that the cause of the fire was a stacked fondue cooker, one of which was still burning.

“The plastic tank located on the unlit cooker caught fire, then the fire spread to the cooker and combustible materials located nearby,” the Public Prosecutor's Office wrote in its indictment.

The public prosecutor's office in Vaud added that the instructions for using the cooker contained precisely an illustrated warning that it should never be stacked and the words 'Caution, fire hazard due to synthetic material tank'.
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