Hotel fires through history
Photo: Sun File photo
Smoke billows out of the MGM Grand as the hotel is engulfed in flames on Nov. 21, 1980. Faulty wiring in an unused delicatessen is the cause of the worst disaster in Nevada history and the country's second-worst hotel fire.
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