7-25-2015 Cosmopolitan Hotel Fire, Las Vegas, NV

[nozzleman]

Very impressive amount of apparatus there. I guess I would have figured there would have been more Las Vegas FD units there than Clark County. But I don't know how their system works out there.

 

Nice shots. 

 

Thanks for sharing

 

Thank you I don't get to many fires but when I do I try to get the best I can.

 

The only hotel on the strip that is in the city is The Stratosphere. Everything else is in the county. The Cosmopolitan is pretty far south, so even though they use the same dispatch center and automatic aid, Vegas units are kinda far away.

 

As far as I know Las Vegas City Fire and Rescue closest station is Station 10 which is on Martin Luther King between Charleston and Oakey. The City and County work very closely together.

 

So how many alarms is that for that many engine companies to respond? or was this considered a special response due to a high rise?

 

This was a Two alarm High Rise Fire. A High Rise Alarm is as follows:

 

5 Engine Companies

2 Ladder Trucks

2 Battalion Chiefs

3 Rescue Units

Heavy Rescue.

 

When you take the two alarms you basically get a 2.5 alarm response.

 

Also the County fire department credits alot of the changes in hotels since the MGM Grand Fire. They now have

Fire Control rooms in all of the major hotels and casinos and that is what helped keep this from being much worse.