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Las Vegas House Fire Displaces Four People

Department: Las Vegas Fire Department - [Las Vegas, Nevada]


A house on the city's eastside was heavily damaged by fire and displaced the four occupants early Friday afternoon.  The fire has been ruled accidental. There were no reported injuries.
 
Fire dispatchers received numerous calls at 12:52 p.m. Friday that a house at 325 Lehman Street (Sandhill/Bonanza) was on fire. When firefighters arrived heavy flames and smoke was coming out most of the doors and windows of the one-story wood frame/stucco house. It took firefighters about ten minutes to bring the intense fire under control. 
 
The fire gutted most of the interior of the home. Damage was estimated at $125,000.
 
The fire has been ruled accidental by Las Vegas fire investigators. It was the result of food cooking on the stove that caught fire.  The four adult occupants of the house were home at the time of the fire. Two of them were making lunch cooking hamburgers in a pan, when the grease caught fire. They tried to put the fire out, but it quickly spread throughout the kitchen.
 
The four adults received assistance from the American Red Cross and Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Foundation.

A cooking fire at 1840 N. Decatur Ave. at 12:16 a.m. Friday sent a woman to UMC Hospital with second degree burns on her arms and legs due to hot grease. Cooking fires are the leading cause of fires in the Las Vegas valley and the leading cause of injury-related fires in the United States. 





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