3-Alarm Fire Burning On Top Of Monte Carlo (Fire Contained)

Fox 5 via Drudge ^ | 1/25/2008

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Fire crews on top of the 3,000-room hotel at 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. S. are trying to contain the blaze, which broke out shortly after 11 a.m.

Four welders who were working on the roof were trapped there, but they were recently rescued.

The blaze began at the top of the hotel and has spread down into four different parts, including the roof, a top corner of the building and a couple of floors down from the roof. There are 32 floors and about 3,000 people staying at the hotel, which is owned by MGM Mirage.

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[VegasBaby]

Vegas is generally a pretty windy city anyway so it wouldn’t surprise me.

[Mr. Jeeves]

OK, they are evacuating Monte Carlo guests to NYNY and Bellagio - that makes more sense.

[Petronski]

Your picture seems to show the room where it started. Seems to, anyway.

Love those huge chunks of debris falling from the facade.

[dfwgator]

How did the MGM Grand Fire start years ago?

[JFC]

I feel for those firemen on top of building. it is smoking so bad they could really be in harms way.

[mewzilla]

4 workers trapped on the roof per FNC

Aw, jeez. Prayers for all in harm's way.

[Deo volente]

Prayers Up!

[technomage]

Let’s see how long it takes for someone to blame Muslims, or terrorism without having one shred of evidence.

[VegasBaby]

It was electrical.

[cinnathepoet]

Who is MONTE CARL?

[Monkey Face]

Probably more like someone somking where they shouldn’t be. It started on top, so who can tell?

[technomage]

How did the MGM Grand Fire start years ago?

Faulty electrical wiring.

[fred4prez]

They better watch out, Ocean 14’s team is cleaning out the vaults :)

[Arizona Carolyn]

I don’t think it would be windy there today at all, the smoke is going straight up and we are only two hours from Vegas and there isn’t a drop of wind today.

[Petronski]

Caller on FoxNews said the fire is progressing downward into lower floors.

[JFC]

that is good wind is not up, if it were it could really take off fast.

[mewzilla]

Aren’t these places required to have sprinkler systems? And I just read that the Monte Carlo was recently renovated, so you’d think their fire supression stuff would be up to snuff.

[Arizona Carolyn]

a fire broke out in a delicatessen and then spread through the casino which basically blocked exits

[dinoparty]

With all the flame retardant material, how do these hotels burn at all?

[Red Badger]

Who is MONTE CARL?........He’s the guy who invented Three Card Monte..................