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The victim is the latest elderly New Yorker to die in a fire in the last couple months, a string of more than a dozen deaths.
The local police said that their preliminary toll was about 40 dead, with roughly 115 injured, in the early morning blaze at a bar in the resort town of Crans-Montana.
A five-alarm fire that destroyed a Brooklyn matzo factory Wednesday morning also left four people hurt, including a New York City firefighter. The fire broke out just before 2 a.m. at 36th Street near 13th Avenue in Kensington. The FDNY was on the scene within four minutes.
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An official said the sparklers were attached to bottles of champagne held too close to the ceiling. Forty people died and more than 100 were injured. Many of the victims were teenagers.