Fire Guts Nevada Broadcasters’ Home
• The Las Vegas office of the Nevada Broadcasters Association was gutted by a massive fire on Monday that destroyed The Park at 3900, the 84,000-square-foot business complex near the Vegas Strip that houses the Association and 23 other tenants. As The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, Clark County Fire Chief Greg Cassell noted that no sprinklers had been installed in the two-story structure, located near Paradise Road and East Twain Avenue, and it was unclear if the building’s smoke detectors were even functioning because the Fire Department was never contacted by an alarm monitoring company; instead, the fire was reported by a guest at a nearby La Quinta Inn & Suites. As of 2:45pm Tuesday, nearly 12 hours after flames were first reported ripping through the building, the LVFD was still working on extinguishing the fire.
“You take things for granted,” Mitch Fox, President & CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association told the Review-Journal. “We don’t think there’s anything that important in an office, but there’s personal mementos, awards, signed photos, things that can’t be replaced.” Fox said that while the loss of the association’s office was saddening, his staff is already picking up the pieces and moving forward. “Think if this had happened 15, 20 years ago, or even just 10 years ago,” Fox noted. “Every business has paper files, but now we have Dropbox, the cloud, the Internet. We didn’t lose everything.”
Fox said the silver lining of the fire — if there is one — is the outpouring of support he’s received from the community. He said he’s received numerous calls from people, including station managers, county commissioners and Mayor Carolyn Goodman, offering office space and resources while the association gets back on its feet. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. [Screen-grab from a video shot by Michael Quine /Las Vegas Review-Journal]
