Fire officials reveal origin of Mount Charleston fire

A occurrence that burned the Mount Charleston Lodge to the crushed Friday is considered an accidental occurrence that started successful a retention country underneath a deck, authorities said Monday.

“It wasn’t suspicious,” said Larry Haydu, adjunct Clark County occurrence chief. “I’m definite it’s going to beryllium determined to beryllium an accidental fire.”

The Clark County Fire Department archetypal received reports of the occurrence astatine 4:45 a.m. By the clip firefighters arrived, the historical gathering and assemblage gathering spot was engulfed successful flames. A speedy effect and onslaught by firefighters prevented the blaze from spreading to adjacent cabins oregon the surrounding conifer histrion forest.

The occurrence section said astatine the country Friday it was believed the occurrence started successful the wide vicinity of lodge’s eating area. But Haydu said Monday greeting that the fire’s origins were traced to “below the extracurricular platform successful a retention room.”

“There was a ample extracurricular deck, and adjacent I didn’t recognize determination were retention rooms nether there,” Haydu said. “Apparently it started successful 1 of those retention rooms, burned up done the deck. Then erstwhile it got done the platform it started lapping into the eating room. When we archetypal arrived that country of the eating room, northwest corner, was beauteous heavy progressive successful fire.”

Haydu declined to speculate connected what specifically started the fire.

“Investigators could archer wherever the commencement of the occurrence was, but they couldn’t find a origin wrong 100 percent certainality,” Haydu said. “So they near it arsenic undetermined.”

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