Thick, dense smoke started to fill the complex making visibility reduced and making it hard to breathe for residents who were trying to escape,\u201d <\/strong>the fire department reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMuch of Downtown Loses Power<\/h2>\n A utility pole at the scene caught fire and collapsed during the blaze, and utility lines fell to the ground. That led to a portion of the downtown area losing electricity.<\/p>\n
By 6 am, the flames were mostly under control. Firefighters remained on the scene into the daylight hours on Sunday to extinguish flare-ups and hotspots.<\/p>\n
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Guests at a nearby motel and residents at a nearby studio apartment complex also were evacuated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Some residents went to Hollingsworth Steam Academy, a nearby school, for temporary shelter. Hundreds of people were forced to leave their residences or rooms, KTNV<\/em>, a local TV station, reported.<\/p>\nFled With Dogs, Cats<\/h2>\n Two people who were forced to flee a condo said they escaped without shirts, phones, or personal belongings, KTNV<\/em> said. Their condo is now \u201cuninhabitable.\u201d<\/p>\nLater on Sunday, the duo had not been back to see if their car was destroyed by flames, the report said. An estimated two dozen vehicles were damaged in the fire, KLAS<\/em>, another local TV station, reported.<\/p>\nSome residents only had time to pick up cats and dogs before running outside quickly for their safety, KTNV<\/em> said.<\/p>\n\n
One resident, Matalie Avila, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> after the fire that \u201cresidents have complained multiple times about squatters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An historic blaze early Sunday caused widespread damage to residential buildings off of Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas. It was the largest number of occupied dwelling units on fire in 25 years, Las Vegas firefighters reported. Ten or more buildings were heavily damaged or destroyed in the four-alarm fire that took five hours to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":217981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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