The flames at Le Constellation in Switzerland that left over 40 dead and over 100 injured affected many young people on New Year's Eve.
However, the scars of that night now extend far beyond the grass where the young people celebrated.
In the days since the blaze, locals told CNN they were at a loss for questions about that night: last-minute changes of plans, choosing to celebrate outside in crowded bars or with family instead of friends.
"'It should have been us,' 'I should have gone too,' 'My brothers and sisters were there last night,'" locals told CNN in the days after the fire.
Already, those who were texting with the alleged victims just hours before the disaster are glued to their phones, trapped in a desperate wait for any information about friends who simply stop responding.
Today, Swiss police announced that they had opened an investigation into the bar's owners for negligent homicide, negligent injury, and negligent arson.
Swiss police also identified four of the victims, including two young girls, aged 21 and 16, and two young boys, aged 18 and 16.
For their friends, the events of that night, broadcast on social media through horrific videos of panic in the moments of the fire, are all they talk about.
"We ask what we would have done in their place. We only talk about that," 17-year-old Leonor Marques told CNN. "
"I feel that even if we want to turn the page, it's impossible. The topic opens up by itself," she said.
In the darkness of Friday morning, as reporters and mourners gathered in front of Le Constellation, one scene captured the raw emotion still coursing through this small community.
A father, his face covered in tears, fell to his knees as he approached the bar.
After a desperate search for information, over two dark nights and a difficult day, he still didn't know if his son's body could be found at Le Constellation, his brother told CNN.
According to Swiss officials, a small number of patients in the hospital from the fire have not yet been identified.
Amid the impatient wait for information, days oscillating between hope and despair, the teenage cousin of a young man still missing since the fire said: "I mean, there's probably no chance he's alive."
For Leonor Marques, 17, who is still waiting for news about two friends she knew were at Le Constellation on Wednesday night, not knowing their fate is the hardest thing.
"I feel useless, like I can't do anything," she told CNN. "I don't know if they're alive or dead, good or bad. I can't do anything. I can do absolutely nothing," she added.
Amid the tragedy, she said she had to find some comfort in knowing that two of her friends were in medically induced comas in a Lausanne hospital.
"This is something," she said.
Amandine Chavanon, a surgeon who was vacationing in Crans-Montana, was woken up by her mother after her teenage brother called her from outside the bar.
Rushing to the scene to help, she spent hours treating severely burned victims, providing assistance alongside first responders and bystanders.
Focused on treating patients on the bank floor where they were inserting intravenous drips and calming burned survivors, identifying them was not their priority.
"Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate was what we were thinking," she told CNN, even as some first responders struggled to keep track of the names of dozens of injured teenagers.
Struggling out of the bar, she said many of the young people partying "didn't really know what was going on."
"I had a daughter. I remember her whole face was burned, and she looked at me, and she said, 'I'm going home.' I just picked her up, and I said, 'You're not going home,'" she says.
Working the New Year's Eve shift at a nearby hospital, doctor friends told Chavano that he had to turn away anxious parents looking for their children as they struggled to cope with the influx of patients.
"I just had in mind rescue, rescue, rescue," she said.
Questions about preparation
As pictures emerged of the final moments at Le Constellation before the fire spread, revellers could be seen dancing in a shower of sparks, flying from champagne bottles raised a few inches from the ceiling, covered in insulating foam.
In the video, shot perhaps moments later, the young people dance, laugh, and film the flames while a young man vainly shoots the flames with a towel.
With authorities conducting their ongoing investigation into the role of fireworks, testimonies from survivors and those who rushed to help are beginning to fill in the picture of that fateful night.
Paolo Campolo, a local resident who was praised for pulling revellers out of the burning bar, said he had to open a back door of the bar to free people trapped inside.
Several teenagers CNN spoke to after the fire, who said they had visited Le Constellation multiple times, said a back exit to the bar was usually closed.
The bar's French co-owner told the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Genève on Friday that the venue had been inspected "three times in 10 years".
"Everything was done according to the rules," he said.
CNN previously contacted both Moretti and co-owner Jessica Anne Jeanne Moretti through their businesses.
In Crans-Montana, news about the living and the dead feels like a priority for many people.
Processing this disaster is not yet on people's minds.
On Thursday evening, a father walked past the covered fences that now mark Le Constellation, his young child perched on his shoulders.
“What happened there?” she asked, his face contorted as he searched for the answer, the weight of the tragedy too great to process.
"An accident, honey," he replied./CNN/
