Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Cigarettes blamed in fires at Cosmopolitan, apartment

A cigarette sparked a fire this afternoon inside a hotel room at the Cosmopolitan, fire officials said.

The blaze erupted inside a trash can at 1:12 p.m. at the Las Vegas Strip resort, the Clark County Fire Department said in a prepared statement.

The fire caused an estimated $10,000 worth of damage.

Crews had been summoned to an apartment building in the 1900 block of East Tropicana Avenue, near Spencer Street, about an hour earlier for another fire sparked by a cigarette.

That blaze started on an apartment balcony and caused about $70,000 in damage.

No one was hurt in either fire.

Officials urged smokers to properly discard cigarettes because they burn at temperatures hot enough to ignite combustibles such as paper, cloth and wood.

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