Fondue Cooker Cause of Restaurant Fire
1st November 2025
The Glacier 3000 restaurant in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, was destroyed in 2022. The building also houses a lift station The self-service restaurant on the third floor, the restaurant on the…
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The Glacier 3000 restaurant in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, was destroyed in 2022. The building also houses a lift station
The self-service restaurant on the third floor, the restaurant on the fourth and the lift machinery were completely destroyed by the flames.
We reported on the blaze at the time:
Investigations have concluded that the cause of the fire was a stored fondue cooker.
“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’.
The restaurant’s former catering manager has been summoned to appear before the Eastern Vaud Court in Vevey on November 10th.
A new restaurant was opened in November 2024.
The exterior of the building remains virtually unchanged with the interior rebuilt at a cost of CHF30m (£28.5m).
