“Several” people were reportedly hospitalized with minor injuries not specified after the 51st floor of The Cosmopolitan hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was evacuated on Saturday night, when a fire broke out on a balcony.
Clark County firefighters, who responded with 10 engines and four ladder trucks just before 8 pm Pacific time, managed to extinguish the fire, the cause of which was under investigation, FOX 5 in Las Vegas reported.
The fire did not spread to any other floor, the station said.
Strip hotels have suffered several fires over the years, including a fire in 1980 at the former MGM Grand, now Bally’s Las Vegas, which started on the ground floor and killed 87 people – most from smoke inhalation. It remains one of the deadliest hotel fires in US history, the Review-Journal reported.
Cosmopolitan, opened in 2010, is located next to the Bellagio Hotel and Casino.
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In 2015, a major fire broke out in The Cosmopolitan’s pool area on the 14th floor, causing more than $ 2 million in damage and sending at least one person to a hospital for smoke inhalation, according to the newspaper.