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The following information was taken from the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Facebook page.
LAS VEGAS FIRE & RESCUE MEDIA RELEASE
LAS VEGAS FIRE & RESCUE
DATE/TIME: 112714/0600PST
RELEASE: 14-095
Fire Damages Vacant House
Firefighter Injured During Operations
Las Vegas fire investigators believe homeless people may be responsible for a fire that heavily damaged a vacant house near W. Charleston & Rainbow Boulevards early Thanksgiving morning. One firefighter sustained an injured knee and was taken to the hospital during the fire. No other properties on the street were damaged by the fire.
Fire dispatchers received several calls at 2:07 a.m. that trees were on fire at 1004 Sproul Court (Charleston/Rainbow). When firefighters arrived they found trees in the backyard heavily involved with fire and fire was also burning the rear of the one story wood frame/stucco boarded up vacant house.
Firefighters were able to knock down a large portion of the fire in the trees using water from the water tanks on the fire engines. As they were hooking up fire hoses to the fire hydrant across the street from the house on fire, the fire hydrant broke off the water pipe going into the underground water main and flew into the air and landed in the street about ten feet from where it was originally. The several hundred pound hydrant did not injure anyone when it blew off, although a firefighter was turning on the fire hydrant when it blew off. This caused firefighters to have to lay hose to a fire hydrant several hundred feet away on West Charleston Boulevard which had to be closed to traffic. The delay in getting the water allowed the fire to regain strength and burn freely for a few minutes causing it to spread across the back of the house and extending into the interior. Once the new water source was established, firefighters were able to quickly bring the fire under control.
The fire gutted the rear of the house and caused heavy damage on the inside. Damage was estimated at $75,000.
A neighbor told fire investigators that he and his wife were asleep and woke to loud banging noises outside. When he woke, he noticed a bright glow coming through the bedroom window. When he went outside, he found the rear of the house next door on fire as well as the trees in the backyard, which was beginning to start a tree in his yard on fire. While his wife called 9-1-1 to report the fire, he used a garden hose to spray water on his tree and rear of his house. His efforts proved successful, although his tree was damaged by fire.
He told fire investigators the house was vacant and boarded up for a while. One day he noticed smoke coming from the rear of the vacant house and went to investigate. He found where an adult male had made an outside makeshift hut on the rear of the house and was staying there. The smoke was from the man cooking something on the outside of the vacant house. He said other neighbors called police. He said homeless people had been going on and off the property for a while. The inside of the home was ransacked; it appeared people had been staying in the house also.
Although fire investigators could not pin-point the exact cause of the fire, they determined it started outside on the rear of the house where several personal items of a person were found who might have been staying there.
There were no utilities connected to the house.
One firefighter sustained a minor knee injury during the fire and was taken to UMC Trauma, which is standard procedure for a firefighter line of duty injury, to be checked out.
West Charleston Boulevard was closed in both directions for approximately 90 minutes due to the fire hose being stretched across the road.
Video & Photos on You Tube'
http://youtu.be/mkaadY_C8AA?list=UUZkLSGx-JFEr79ezh7IGZ4Q
Credit: Las Vegas Fire & Rescue
END ## LVFR/PEIO-TRS
E6,2,44,5, T6, R2,6, HR44, EMS1, AR1, B10,4, PIO1, 6i1, 6i4, 6i5
Incident: 4340-210
http://youtu.be/mkaadY_C8AA?list=UUZkLSGx-JFEr79ezh7IGZ4Q
You can visit their Facebook page and see a couple of pictures from the fire here.
https://www.facebook.com/lasvegasfd
LAS VEGAS FIRE & RESCUE MEDIA RELEASE
LAS VEGAS FIRE & RESCUE
DATE/TIME: 112714/0600PST
RELEASE: 14-095
Fire Damages Vacant House
Firefighter Injured During Operations
Las Vegas fire investigators believe homeless people may be responsible for a fire that heavily damaged a vacant house near W. Charleston & Rainbow Boulevards early Thanksgiving morning. One firefighter sustained an injured knee and was taken to the hospital during the fire. No other properties on the street were damaged by the fire.
Fire dispatchers received several calls at 2:07 a.m. that trees were on fire at 1004 Sproul Court (Charleston/Rainbow). When firefighters arrived they found trees in the backyard heavily involved with fire and fire was also burning the rear of the one story wood frame/stucco boarded up vacant house.
Firefighters were able to knock down a large portion of the fire in the trees using water from the water tanks on the fire engines. As they were hooking up fire hoses to the fire hydrant across the street from the house on fire, the fire hydrant broke off the water pipe going into the underground water main and flew into the air and landed in the street about ten feet from where it was originally. The several hundred pound hydrant did not injure anyone when it blew off, although a firefighter was turning on the fire hydrant when it blew off. This caused firefighters to have to lay hose to a fire hydrant several hundred feet away on West Charleston Boulevard which had to be closed to traffic. The delay in getting the water allowed the fire to regain strength and burn freely for a few minutes causing it to spread across the back of the house and extending into the interior. Once the new water source was established, firefighters were able to quickly bring the fire under control.
The fire gutted the rear of the house and caused heavy damage on the inside. Damage was estimated at $75,000.
A neighbor told fire investigators that he and his wife were asleep and woke to loud banging noises outside. When he woke, he noticed a bright glow coming through the bedroom window. When he went outside, he found the rear of the house next door on fire as well as the trees in the backyard, which was beginning to start a tree in his yard on fire. While his wife called 9-1-1 to report the fire, he used a garden hose to spray water on his tree and rear of his house. His efforts proved successful, although his tree was damaged by fire.
He told fire investigators the house was vacant and boarded up for a while. One day he noticed smoke coming from the rear of the vacant house and went to investigate. He found where an adult male had made an outside makeshift hut on the rear of the house and was staying there. The smoke was from the man cooking something on the outside of the vacant house. He said other neighbors called police. He said homeless people had been going on and off the property for a while. The inside of the home was ransacked; it appeared people had been staying in the house also.
Although fire investigators could not pin-point the exact cause of the fire, they determined it started outside on the rear of the house where several personal items of a person were found who might have been staying there.
There were no utilities connected to the house.
One firefighter sustained a minor knee injury during the fire and was taken to UMC Trauma, which is standard procedure for a firefighter line of duty injury, to be checked out.
West Charleston Boulevard was closed in both directions for approximately 90 minutes due to the fire hose being stretched across the road.
Video & Photos on You Tube'
http://youtu.be/mkaadY_C8AA?list=UUZkLSGx-JFEr79ezh7IGZ4Q
Credit: Las Vegas Fire & Rescue
END ## LVFR/PEIO-TRS
E6,2,44,5, T6, R2,6, HR44, EMS1, AR1, B10,4, PIO1, 6i1, 6i4, 6i5
Incident: 4340-210
http://youtu.be/mkaadY_C8AA?list=UUZkLSGx-JFEr79ezh7IGZ4Q
You can visit their Facebook page and see a couple of pictures from the fire here.
https://www.facebook.com/lasvegasfd