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Firefighters Discuss MGM Grand Fire

Steve Marcus

Firefighters pose at the Las Vegas Sun photo studio Wednesday, November 7, 2012. From left: Jim Perkins, Royce Leonard, John Jersey, Bert Sweeney, Skip Miller, Jerry Bendorf, and John Pappageorge. The firefighters were involved in fighting the MGM Grand fire in 1980. Eighty-five people died in the fire.