After Fire disaster in a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana The seriously injured are flown to special clinics, including to Germany. Treating your burns is very difficult. Frank Siemers is President of the German Society for Burn Medicine and heads the burn injury center at the BG Klinikum Bergmannstrost in Halle an der Saale. We speak to him as he and his colleagues prepare for the arrival of their first patient from Switzerland.

THE TIME: Mr. Siemers, in the fire in Crans-Montana, 40 people have died and 115 have been injured. How common are fires with so many victims?