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No major injuries in Monte Carlo fire
Monte Carlo three-alarm fire video

Displaced Monte Carlo guests moved to MGM

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Monte Carlo guests stand with their luggage in the street today as the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard continues to burn.
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Las Vegas firefighters battle a fire that started today at the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard.
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Monte Carlo employees hold each other as they walk away from a burning Monte Carlo hotel and casino on Las Vegas Boulevard.
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Employees of the Monte Carlo stand outside the hotel after a fire broke out at the hotel and casino.
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Tourists watch a fire broke out at the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino.
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Fire crews are cleaning up after a three-alarm fire today at the Monte Carlo Hotel & Casino.

Clark County fire officials are reporting no major injuries and 17 people have minor injuries from the fire. A few people were treated for smoke inhalation. The fire was focused on the exterior of the building. Fire crews from Clark County, City of Las Vegas and Henderson were on the scene.

The entire resort has been cleared. Hotel guests are being placed at other MGM Mirage properties.


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    • The fire was reported by passersby shortly before 11 a.m. Thick, black smoke was pouring from the top of the south tower on the west side of the structure. The cause of the fire has not been determined. There were welders on the roof before the fire broke out.

    Las Vegas Boulevard has reopened. The only street still closed is Monte Carlo Drive, which runs next to the hotel-casino.

    The Monte Carlo has 32 floors and about 3,000 rooms and 200 suites. It is owned by MGM Mirage. The hotel-casino opened on June 21, 1996.

    MGM Mirage has set up phone lines for employees and guests with questions. Employees can call 693-7005. Guests can call 702-891-4411.

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    yolanda wrote on January 28, 2008 08:11 PM: So how did the fire start?


    Marine wrote on January 28, 2008 02:30 PM: As an employee of the MGM Mirage I am sad to say that this fire was perpetrated by the MGM Mirage themselves. It is their goal to remove the Monte Carlo all together, it sets on 40 acres and at $40 million an acre their greed is to replace it with another CityCenter type project...Bobby Baldwin should be jailed...


    alex mcculloch wrote on January 28, 2008 08:53 AM: Lokking at the photoes of the fire there appears to be intermittent areas of fire. What is actuly burning? it looks like the architectural cornices is this correct? and what is this material? If you cannot answer these questions as iunderstand the legaily implications wher could i find this information


    APRIL wrote on January 27, 2008 01:04 PM: my question is:why the montecarlo was burn???


    april wrote on January 27, 2008 01:02 PM: uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh
    i saw the fire


    Mike wrote on January 26, 2008 01:24 AM: OMG... I feel sorry for the idiots of the world who feel the need to wish harm to people due to their political views. Get a grip on reality...


    Jason Lee Stevens wrote on January 26, 2008 01:11 AM: My question is "If known,what started the inferno? And what is management going to do about the guest that were staying on the floors they was destroyed by the fire?


    Mike Hunt wrote on January 25, 2008 11:28 PM: Rumor has it Britney's unattended crack pipe was the cause. BTW - I like her caboose.


    Paul bellini wrote on January 25, 2008 11:26 PM: It's a good thing the evac'd guests were given food. This minimized the high risk of starvation. No word on whether they were given water or margueritas for fluid replenishment.


    jl wrote on January 25, 2008 11:13 PM:
    Jeff, why don't you crawl back under the rock you came from? Wishing people burn to death. Your mother must be so proud.


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