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New Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Chief Sworn In

January 21, 2011

During this morning’s Las Vegas City Council meeting, Mike Myers was officially sworn in as the new chief of the Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Department. Mayor Oscar B. Goodman also pinned on his badge, while family and friends looked on. Myers replaces Chief Greg Gammon, who retired from the department earlier this month. As [...]

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Fatal Fire Remains Under Investigation

December 16, 2010

A fire in a northwest Las Vegas home where a young woman was found dead lying on the floor at the front door of the house remains under investigation. The cause of the fire is undetermined. Las Vegas Fire & Rescue responded to 7321 Backstretch Avenue at 2:56 p.m. Monday for a medical emergency, possibly [...]

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Ambulance Companies & Firefighters Battle Over Services

December 9, 2010

An adrenaline-pumped race against time through the traffic-clogged streets of southern Nevada. A typical firefighter makes this life or death dash as many as 15 times a day, every day. The stakes are as high as they get. Eighty percent of the calls have nothing to do with fires. They are rescues and medical emergencies. [...]

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Woman Pulled From Burning Apartment

November 8, 2010

Fire dispatchers received numerous calls that smoke was coming from an upstairs apartment at the Sherman Garden Apartments which is a city of Las Vegas Housing Authority complex. Heavy smoke was showing from the upstairs apartment when firefighters arrived. Firefighters evacuated the entire building which consisted of 12 units. Firefighters found a rear bedroom fully [...]

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House Fire Sends One Person To Hospital

September 1, 2010

No one was in the house when the fire started; one of the teens that lives in the house was down the street when a neighbor asked if he had a bar-be-cue burning behind his house. He told them he was not using the bar-be-cue and ran home to find smoke coming from rear of [...]

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Fire station on donated land brings teaching opportunities

August 31, 2010

Two years ago, Las Vegas city councilwoman Lois Tarkanian approached officials from the College of Southern Nevada with an innovative idea to build a new fire station. If CSN donated land near its Charleston Campus, the city would build a new fire station and include classroom space for CSN students, especially targeting those in the [...]

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Vehicle Fire Under Investigation LVFD

August 25, 2010

One engine responded to a report of a vehicle on fire in a driveway. When unit arrived on scene, truck was fully involved with fire touching the house at the garage, additional unit was requested. When second engine arrived on scene, loud banging/popping noises could be heard coming from inside the garage. This is commonly [...]

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Las Vegas Fire

August 12, 2010

Cause of incident: Witnesses say they thought a bar-be-cue was burning behind the house at 1412 Maenpah Way. When they looked over the fence, they saw pine needles on the ground burning. One neighbor got his garden hose and started to spray water on the burning pine needles on the ground, but the fire spread [...]

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Two People Hurt During Downtown Two Alarm Explosion and Fire

July 11, 2010

DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:”6474″,playerInstanceID:”18B0B5E1-5FB9-70EA-C1BF-5648E8805389″,domain:”kvbc.web.entriq.net”}); Fire dispatchers received a number of calls that a vacant building on South Main Street had exploded and was on fire. They describe the explosion as very violent. As fire units responded to the scene, a column of thick black smoke was seen in the sky and as they approached the area on Main [...]

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Suspicious Fire Burns Home in Las Vegas

May 13, 2008

On May 10, 2008 at 2:49 p.m., Las Vegas Fire dispatchers received multiple calls about a fire at 104 Joyce Way (Torrey Pines / US95) in the Torrey Pines Garden Subdivision. The fire started in the lower level of a split level house and advanced to the upstairs. Neighbors told investigators that the house has [...]

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