Another three trucks were stationed at the scene, and in the late morning dozens of firefighters unrolled hose line, showering small pockets of bright orange for about 45 minutes. One fire truck was designated to keeping an undamaged clubhouse protected, O’Neal wrote. He said there was no estimate on how long operations on the site will continue. “The team has a very good idea where the origin of the fire was due to the overwhelming volume of video captured throughout the incident,” O’Neal said in an email. He said an ignitable liquid detection dog was working in the suspected origin site. “Until the large piles of debris can be dispersed and extinguished, they will continue to smolder and produce smoke,” he wrote.Īt around 4:45 p.m., O’Neal said the cause of the fire remained under investigation. Officials initially estimated the damage at $200 million. The $90 million project was 75 percent complete when it was destroyed Tuesday, O’Neal wrote. On Thursday morning, white smoke that could be seen across the valley was met with pockets of black smoke as flames popped up in the crumbling apartment complex. “The fires are deep-seated in the piles of burning debris and occasionally flare-up,” O’Neal wrote. around the clock, according to a statement from Assistant Fire Chief Brian O’Neal. Two days after a southwest Las Vegas apartment complex under construction caught fire, flames and smoke continued to billow out of the burnt rubble Thursday.Ĭlark County firefighters are expected to continue fighting the blaze at 8030 W. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-journal) Flames continue to flare up from a fire at an apartment complex under construction at 8030 W.
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