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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A fire confined to a
luxury suite on the fifth floor of Caesars Palace
hotel-casino injured 16 people Wednesday and
forced hundreds to flee the hotel’s 12-story cen
tral tower, authorities said.
It was the third sizable fire hotel fire at the
gambling resort city in less than five months.
Smoke poured from fifth floor windows, and
breaking glass showered the ground as people
raced out to the parking lot behind the luxury
hotel.
Fleeing guests and hotel employees made
their way past gamblers who continued to play
blackjack, roll dice and pull slot machine handles
in the casino, despite a strong smell of smoke,
after the fire erupted at 10:05 a m.
Ironically, a convention of burglar and fire
alarm companies is being held at Caesars Palace
this week.
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(smoke) alarms going off, said maid Linda
Holmes. "When I got down by the pool I saw all the
flames coming out the windows.”
Guests and employees later were allowed to
return to all but the fifth floor of the hotel tower.
The cause of the fire that erupted in a five
room suite was not known immediately, said Clark
County Fire Capt. Ralph Dinsman.
Nor was it known whether the suite was
occupied at the time.
The blaze was in a portion of the 1,736-room
hotel that had no sprinklers, but Caesars Palace is
in the process of installing them in the area, he
said. Fire alarms and smoke detectors in the area
worked, according to Dinsman.
"We have 10 civilian injuries — most of these
are minor — and six firefighters are injured. One is
quite serious,” Dinsman said.
Dinsman said he didn’t know how many of the
injured were hotel guests.
Coal miners
reject pact,
picket mines
From Associated Press Reports
Roving caravans of pickets
closed non-union coal mines in
West Virginia and eastern Ken
tucky on Wednesday, a day
after United Mine Workers rank
and filers soundly rejected a
three-year contract endorsed
by their president.
Striking miners were “flipping
back and forth” between Ken
tucky and West Virginia, making
short, surprise stops to set up
picket lines, said Kentucky state
Trooper Chuck Woodard.
‘‘We have pickets but no
problems,” said West Virginia
state police CpI. J.G. Watson.
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everything.”
The only violence reported
after the vote was in eastern
Kentucky, where a mine fore
man’s truck was riddled by
bullets as it crossed a picket line
Tuesday night, according to
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Wednesday, the sixth day of the
nationwide coal strike.
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