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...fire broke out in the basement of the History of Science departmental building, located at 1764 Cambridge Street, yesterday afternoon, causing extensive damage to the basement but injuring no one. The cause of the blaze has not been determined...
Firefighters, who arrived on the scene approximately five minutes later, said yesterday they had to remove two basement doors to gain access to the blaze, but after doing so brought the flames under control in a matter of minutes...
...fire was believed to have been caused by an electrical wire that short-circuited above the kitchen of the hotel's ground-floor delicatessen. According to Clark County Fire Chief Roy Parrish, the blaze may have smoldered for at least an hour before spreading to a catwalk on the next floor used by hotel guards to monitor the gambling in the casino. The flames raced along the catwalk and then swept down and back across the casino. Except for the twelve people killed in the casino, most of the deaths took place on the upper floors, when thick, black...
...every room, closet and corridor. Just as important, owners of some existing buildings have voluntarily modernized their fire-safety systems. The venerable seven-story Copley Plaza was built in 1912, but its owners are spending $460,000 to install smoke alarms in every room after an arsonist's blaze in 1979 killed two people...
...worst: Atlanta's 1946 Winecoff Hotel blaze, which killed...