Las Vegas fire on a skyscraper’s balcony leads to evacuation, “multiple” hospitalizations

“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.

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