Las Vegas Hotel Fire Was Fueled By Use of Nonapproved Resins - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

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A material analysis reveals that non-approved resins helped fuel the Jan. 25 Monte Carlo hotel-casino fire on the Las Vegas Strip, Clark County officials say. The three-alarm blaze resulted in $100 million in damage and lost business. There were no major injuries. Las Vegas contractor Union Erectors LLC was welding atop the 32-story hotel tower’s roof when molten steel fragments from a handheld torch fell and spread across a three-story-high mechanical screen wall and portions of the facade. Lamina in some areas was about 1 millimeter to 2 mm thinner than required, and some decorative elements did not have lamina encasing the foam, states a report from Baltimore-based fire-protection consultant Hughes Associates Inc. (Lamina is an exterior ...

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