CHAPTER 15_ CALIFORNIA

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California is home to many wildfires each year, but Las Vegas has another type of fire that invades the city, hotel fires. One of the biggest hotel fires is the MGM fire. The MGM fire occurred on November 21, 1980. The fire was caused by an electrical fault fueled by flammable materials. The fire was so big that the damage of the fire took the lives of 85 people and injured 650 of the guests. Most of the injuries and deaths were due to an immense amount of toxic smoke because of the fires fumes burning in the air. Even though Las Vegas hotel fires are different from the wildfires that the residents of California have to deal with, they both take peoples lives, and destroy millions of dollars spent on the Fancy hotels built in Las Vegas.