Monte Carlo Hotel-Casino Fire Blaze
Posted on January 25, 2008 - Filed Under NEWS
LAS VEGAS – The whole county was horrified with this fire incident happened to a 32-story Monte Carlo hotel-casino owned by MGM Mirage Inc. that forced guests and gamblers to run away in safest place as possible.
The fire, which was reported mid-morning at around 11 a.m., halted gambling at the casino as it spread in front of the building across the rooftop. Fiery debris fell to the street below, and orange flames lapped at the casino’s script sign. It took firefighters about an hour to control the three-alarm blaze at the 32-story hotel and fortunately, no serious injuries were reported.
The general manager of ambulance companies American Medical Response and Medic West, John Wilson, reported that five people were hospitalized due to difficulty of breathing and unspecified minor injury as a result of panic evacuation not the fire itself.
A spokesman of the MGM Mirage Inc., Gordon Absher tries his very best to do all the possible way to check all the suites of the resort with door-to-door inspection. All the guests are carried out to the MGM Grand Garden Arena and the hotel employees were move out to the nearby New York-New York hotel.
Survivors, Larry Wappel, 25, with his brother Eric Wappel of San Pierre, Ind. were in a room on the 30th floor when they heard housekeeping staff in a loud noise yelling. It took about 10 minutes to walk single-file down the stairs to get to ground level. Another guest, Renza Badilla, 45, she was in the buffet on the main casino level when fire alarms sounded and she went out through the hotel kitchen and found burning debris and embers falling from the rooftop.
According to Clark County Fire Chief Steve Smith there were no major injuries reported .The cause of the deadly fire was traced to an electrical malfunction in a refrigerated pastry case in the hotel deli. There were no immediate indication of criminal activity or arson but investigators were doing their best at all possible causes.
This serious incident brought heavy traffic on the Las Vegas Strip due to huge crowds formed to watch the fire and the streets were blocked off around the hotel.
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