Park MGM Las Vegas
High-rise resort casino reborn from a Strip fire into a sleek, smoke-free retreat.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Park MGM in Las Vegas centers on a single late morning in January 2008, when a workers' torch sent molten metal onto the tower's foam-clad skin and fire began racing across the facade above the boulevard. You'll hear how thousands of guests streamed out of the casino below as roughly one hundred twenty firefighters converged on the block, and what investigators later found about the coating that let the flames spread so fast. Stand back to take in the full height of what caught fire that day.
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