Charred hulls of two mobile homes can be seen from Las Vegas Boulevard North, where a morning fire Friday, June 15, 2012, killed three children, all under the age of 3.
Published Friday, June 15, 2012 | 12:02 p.m.
Updated Friday, June 15, 2012 | 1:30 p.m.
Emergency vehicles, firefighters and police remain on the scene of a fire this morning on Las Vegas Boulevard North that claimed the lives of three children under the age of 3.
Multiple fatalities in fire
Three sleeping children died Friday morning as their parents tried in vain to rescue them from a fire at their Las Vegas Boulevard North mobile home.
“It’s a very sad day for everybody out here,” said Russell Cameron, a deputy fire chief with the Clark County Fire Department.
Cameron was on the scene at 3610 N. Las Vegas Blvd., near Lamb Boulevard, where 55 firefighters fought the two-alarm fire this morning.
Firefighters responding to the fire, which was reported around 10:20 a.m., could see a heavy column of smoke as they left the station, Cameron said.
At the Van’s Trailer Oasis mobile home park, the first firefighting unit to arrive came upon two people outside the blazing home. The two turned out to be the parents of three children – all under the age of 3. The parents, Cameron said, were trying unsuccessfully to rescue their children, who were asleep in a back bedroom of the mobile home when the fire broke out.
The fire spread to an unoccupied, adjacent mobile home and took firefighters nearly a half an hour to knock down, Cameron said.
The children’s parents suffered minor, unspecified injuries, Cameron said, and were taken to University Medical Center for treatment. There were no reported injuries to any firefighters.
Well after the fire was brought under control, a smoky odor continued to linger over the mobile home park, which was blocked off to the public by Metro Police. Other residents of the park, through a Clark County Fire Department official, declined to speak with reporters immediately after the fire.
The charred hulls of two mobile homes could be seen from Las Vegas Boulevard North as fire officials remained on scene, trying to determine the fire’s cause. As is standard procedure in fatal fires, Metro crime scene investigators also were on scene.
CORRECTION: The headline on this story was changed to reflect that the fire was in the northeast part of the valley. | (June 15, 2012)
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