article_snippet: As They efforts continued, dozens of people attended a remembrance ceremony for the victims of the crash at a church in a nearby town, Digne-les-Bains.
article_snippet: Relatives of the victims and local residents also gathered Saturday afternoon by a simple stone memorial set up near the crash site, in the village of Le Vernet.
article_snippet: Flowers have been laid there, in the shadow of the snow-covered peaks of the French Alps.
article_snippet: At the scene of the crash, two helicopters were being deployed above the mountainside by recovery crews Saturday.
article_snippet: Lt. Col. Xavier Vialenc, a spokesman for the Gendarmerie, told CNN there were about 40 officers at the crash site Saturday.
article_snippet: Yves Naffrechoux, captain of rescue operations at Seyne-les-Alpes, told CNN on Friday that rescuers have found bodies at the crash site, but few of rescuers are intact.
article_snippet: It could be weeks before all the bodies are recovered, identified and released to the families, authorities said.
article_snippet: Most were from Germany and Spain.
article_snippet: Mother, daughter among 3 American victims .