Homes under construction burn

Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004 | 9:35 a.m.

Three partially built homes were destroyed this morning after fire broke out in a northwest Las Vegas housing development.

No one was injured in the fire, which started about 5:15 a.m. in the 6000 block of Jubilee Gardens Avenue, in the Canyon Mist neighborhood near Jones Boulevard at Elkhorn.

Investigators believe it started in the middle house of the three and quickly spread to the others. The homes were framed and had been wrapped with insulation but did not yet have walls, spokesman Tim Szymanski said.

Fifty firefighters responded to the fire. Each of the 100 homes in the development are currently uninhabited but are selling for between $600,000 to $750,000, said Greg Kozlowicz, a model home salesman. They are about 4,000 square feet each.

The developer, Las Vegas based U.S. Home, had recently installed a set of security cameras in the development, but they had not yet been turned on, Michael DeSilva, division president for U.S. Home, said.

DeSilva declined further comment about the fire.

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