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The MGM Grand fire occurred on Friday, November 21, 1980, at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (later Bally’s, now Horseshoe Las Vegas), located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The fire killed 85 people, most through smoke inhalation. [1] The fire began from a refrigerated pastry display case in one of the restaurants, located on the ...
On 12 June 2024, an early-morning fire broke out at a residential building in Mangaf in Kuwait's Ahmadi Governorate housing 196 male migrant workers of NBTC Group, killing 50 migrant workers, at least 46 of whom were from India, and injuring around 50 others. Most victims died of smoke inhalation, while others were fatally injured from falling.
Southern Hotel. This fire broke out around 1 a.m. on April 11, 1877, killing 21 people at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fire may have been burning for half an hour before the alarm sounded. The building was reduced to smoking ruins, and a replacement Southern Hotel was built on the site in 1880.
CityCenter was supposed to be the face of the next generation of Las Vegas Strip development. Instead, it has become a symbol of the Great Recession and the overbuilding during the late 2000s on ...
July 31, 2024 at 12:37 PM. Cal Fire. The Park Fire has destroyed more than 360 structures as the wildfire continued to burn into its eighth day in Butte and Tehama counties after an alleged act of ...
Crews have been spraying water on the building from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and keeping a fire watch overnight. Over nearly eight days, a little over 1 million gallons of water were sprayed on the pile ...
1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [ 6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10. 1908 – Collinwood school fire, in Collinwood, Ohio (soon absorbed by Cleveland ), on March 4, killed 175. 1909 – Flores Theater fire, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on February 15, killed 250.
Unknown. On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people [a] and wounding at least 413.