In 1981, a fire raced through the upper floors of the Las Vegas Hilton as the high-rise was being outfitted with more modern fire safety equipment, killing eight people and injuring more than 200. In 2008, a three-alarm fire burned the top floors of the Monte Carlo (now Park MGM), forcing thousands of guests to evacuate and sending at least 13 people to the hospital for smoke inhalation. There were no civilian or firefighter injuries reported.” The department said “two floors were temporarily evacuated for precautionary measures. Just after 11 p.m., the Clark County Fire Department was dispatched to the Strip resort “for reports of smoke showing near the roofline,” the department said in a statement.įirefighters “upgraded the response to a second alarm on arrival after finding active smoke production showing from the roof.” Crews “ascended to the roof and found a small fire at the top of the stairwell shaft on the roof and exterior to the stairwell” and then extinguished the blaze. Two floors of the Mandalay Bay resort were temporarily evacuated late Wednesday night because of a small fire.
