MGM Grand fire - 21-11-1980
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- The fire at the MGM Grand hotel in in Las Vegas occurred on 21st November 1980. 85 people were killed in the fire. This is one of the worst hotel fires in american history. Hotel safety was improved after this incident with the installation of sprinklers, automatic fire detection, and evacuation maps in hotel rooms
I've been in design and construction since 1993. Things have changed for the better, but usually due to disasters like these. You can see direct responses in the Building Code (still adopted by each locality, but which is now a unified family of codes across the US) to what happened in disasters like the MGM fire.
People breaking glass it will float down like paper but its a 1/4 thick and could go right thru you on the ground.
The Twin Towers' fire proved that fire in skycrappers are not unmanagable.
Correction: Are unmanagable.
@@internetcensure5849 The 9/11 fires were caused by 9,000 gallons of jet fuel exploding and setting fire to the 96th to the 100th floor ( N.Tower), and the 78th-82nd floors in the ( S. tower). Once ignited , and the amount of fuel on the affected floors as well as the airliner fuel, it was unmanageable.
Ironically, the ( N. tower), a fire broke out on 11th floor in 1975 . It was ignited by more organic means . ( i.e ), electrical . This was isolated , and contained to that floor .
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the MGM Grand Hotel fire. I remember being 13, and my family living in California at the time. I came home from school, and my mom called me from work on her break and told me about it. Later, she came home from work, and we watched the tv news reports. It was so devastating. We had family living in Vegas for decades. Mom called her sister in law and they talked about the fire. We moved to Vegas six years later. A big time tragedy for Vegas. Hoping nothing like that ever happens anywhere!!! May the victims RIP. 😥🙏💔
I was there a couple days ago. Down in the old shop arcade. My girlfriend got a headache going through the hotel in that area. I thought I smelled a hint of something but it briefly went away. I didn't think much of it. I can only imagine if you smelled it first hand it might have jogged your memory.
MrEkg98 going soon at Paris Lordy I didn’t know so sad been many haunted places
Did the hotel guests get a refund, or coupon for a free buffet dinner?
MrEkg98 that’s not the same building. After the fire MGM sold the building to Balleys which is the building fire occurred. The MGM that stands today was built in 1993 and is still the largest hotel in the US.
OMG, this is AMAZING! ^_^ I'd heard about this tragedy before, but this is the first documentary I ever watched about it! :-) You should put this & all of your other videos on the Internet Archive--like, right now! :D
Reasons for code violations? Well simple, The Italian-Canadian/Italian-American Mafia owned, built, and operated the MGM grand until the late 70's or early 80's! Then corporations came in and swept the violations under the rug so they wouldn't have to pay more money! As for the cause, it was due to 2 wire BX armoured cable that powered the Pie Cabinet's Refrigeration Unit's Compressor not being properly installed! The metallic armor acted as the ground since there was only a hot and neutral wire, therefore the grounding was through the armor which was grounded through the junction box it was connected to! Since the armor was not properly cut and installed it was not in contact with the junction box leading to a ground fault, this coupled with the wires sheathing inside rubbing against the sharp armor over time from the compressor vibrations ended up causing an arc fault which caused the fire in the wall behind the refrigeration unit and cabinet! Fire burned for more than 12 hours undetected in the ceiling and wall! This means it started 12 hours or more prior to being detected and prior to burning through the ceiling into the deli! Radiant heat from the fire igniting the furnishings of the deli leading to a fast fire once it broke out of the wall and ceiling!
good job
I’m currently in a hotel with an evacuation map and a fire alarm (although the attitude to the alarm could be better).
Like so many buildings, we are still waiting for the sprinklers.
I was in a fire where we nearly lost someone 10 or 15 years ago, in a non-sprinklered building, that even then was considered high priority for sprinklers. Fit sprinklers.
This happened a few days short of my 10th birthday. A few days before the fire I had a nightmare about fire breathing dinosaurs burning a hotel. In the dream I was in the hotel.
This program said the fire alarm failed. This is inaccurate. According to the fire investigation report, it said an MGM employee switched off the fire alarm because they thought it was giving false alarms.
Brian M. So it had failed that’s why they turned it off originally
Jamie Davis Not exactly. The fire alarm was functioning properly but because the employee thought it was giving a false alarm, it was shut off.
Oh wow! I was not aware of that. A similar thing happened in the First Interstate Bank fire in 1988. In that case, smoke alarms on the 12th floor (where the fire started) were going off but security kept resetting them, as they had been having false alarms. Finally they investigated by which point the fire had become uncontrollable. An engineer who was sent to check on the smoke alarms died when the elevator opened onto the fire floor (he was the only fatality). As a result of that fire, Los Angeles city building codes were changed, much the same as this one.
I'd never heard about this. Stayed there 10 years ago, something like 6500 rooms...damn.
damn, this show had an episode about united 232 judging by the intro? is that one uploaded anywhre? if anyone knows i’d love to see it! thanks for uploading this one. not a whole ton of documentaries about this out there.
One of the big reasons so many people die in these types of fires is that when people hear the alarm they don't get out. How many times have you been in a shopping mall and heard the fire alarm but just kept shopping???
In the MGM fire people died because they refused to leave the games they were playing.
I was at the Parq casino in Vancouver on opening night when the fire alarms went off and the casino staff still jammed more people in as the VFD were running around trying to find the source of the alarm. No one would leave the games and the dealers wouldn't shut down the tables.
Another one I was at was a "Dinner Theater" in a small town. The place was built in the 1930s so a good fire trap. I was working lighting for a play. The alarms went off during intermission. I tried to get people out but no one would get off their asses and put their coffee down to move. Lucky thing was it was just some actors smoking weed in the green room.
All people have to do is exit the building when they think they should and not sit around to be told.
WOW, you are so misinformed, its kinda scary. There was no fire alarm. also, you got the cause of deaths from fires reversed. People die manly in fires from trampling, cause everyone runs to the exit at the same time, not from just chilling while the building burns. You seriously might want to consider some classes or something, cause your take away is frightening.
I get the Fuck out 😳😳😳
I remember watching the hotel fire on TV when it happened. I was 10 years old when it happened. I am 53 now.
I was in Vegas about 2 months before this fire and had visited the MGM. Horrible accident.
Almost 40 years till the day
Has humanity learned anything? from 85 lives snuffed out in November of 1980.
This is what we learn in construction. About fire ratings and smoke stop. Shaftways etc. Firecaulk. Smoke collars and drywall
I worked on the bottom floor where the spa was. It was horrible what happened. I will never forget God got me out of there, and I watched it from a far.I knew a fire fighter that lived across the street. It was even worse then stated
It doesn't seem possible that it could spread and expand that quickly, but I'm far from a fire/smoke expert...
I'll let you know how it spread the way it did when I figure it out haha. I have to research this fire for a class I'm in
The fresh air supplied the fire with the right amount of oxygen and the vents let it travel, it's crazy how deadly it can be. Old Victorian homes with the big grate in the floor and ceiling directly above travel from basement to the attic. A fire in the basement can spread the exact same way in seconds because of the direct air flow
Oil based plastics like those used in the deli booths and casino decorations go up CRAZY fast, and SUPER hot, it's hard to fight fires of that nature when they get going.
Yeah, they don't pump oxygen in to keep gamblers awake.
Did the hotel guest get a refund or a coupon for a free buffet?
Everywhere the fire reached sprinklers it was stopped in its tracks.
Most of the smoke was toxic. Also you break a window causes a vacuum and could draw the fire and smoke in . If I ever stayed in such a building it would be the lowest floor .
@@speedracer1945 I won't sleep in a room I can't escape through the window if I had to.
@@josephastier7421 well if its like 3 story , I'm grabbing a bunch of sheets tie them together and toss it out the window an climb down. Like some did there
@@speedracer1945 That sounds easier than I think it actually is. Well, if the window faces the street, 3 floors is low enough the fire services can reach you with a ladder maybe. 2nd floor is it for me.
So, we were supposed to have learned from 1903 Iroquois Theater fire, then from Collinwood School fire from Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, then from Cocoanut Grove, then from Beverly Hills Supper Club, then from MGM Grand fired, and many before, in between, and after...Yeah right. Maybe in increments in certain places, but we're from being there yet. Sad
Exactly. Grenfell Tower proved that. Fire codes may be better here in the states, but are surprisingly antiquated in the UK.
There was also the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta, the First Interstate Bank fire in Los Angeles, and the Meridien Plaza fire in Philadelphia.
Very sad. I was in HS. Hard to relate to back then because we never went near a casino.
My father was in Vegas during that 🔥
so many simply died from smoke inhalation sad
That's how most people go in fires. Burning to death is not common. It only takes a few minutes for the smoke to knock you unconscious.
My brother was there. He lived
Vooch. Gregg warner
"And some fire experts predict we haven't seen the worst in high rise tragedy" eerie.
We still haven't, Grenfell was awful but it doesn't even come close to the horrors of the Joelma Building fire in 1979. Nearly 200 people died in that building, people who were just going about their day working to put food on the table.
What gets me you cant use the elevators in a fire and smoke usually is thick and your on the 10 floor . You may not make it down 3 floors . It cost them 230 million to the families if they had installed a sprinkler system that would had cost them $1,500 . Also staying in a hotel look for the temp
"a sprinkler system" is a joke, in heavy fire.
@@internetcensure5849yes, in a heavy fire. Sprinklers put out small fires. Almost all fires start as small fires. The fire I was in that almost killed someone started as a small fire, which would have been put out by a sprinkler. We nearly lost a staff member and our main building.
What tower is that today
I had no idea, I was nine years old. I don’t recall….. horrifying.
OMG! Everybody's sleep & BEYOND drunk @ 7am! & THERE'S NO balconies & few windows that open in Las Vegas!
I do remember this fire back in 1980. It`s too bad these things happen😐
I didn’t live in the 80’s. I come to understand so many people smoked cigarettes. Did they not put smoke detectors up because the smoking would set it off? It is no justification, just a reason.
I still remember walking out of the MGM one time, broke, cursing it on my way out. Glad to see my curse-o-matic still works!!
I like watching the old commercials not obnoxious like now, why is why I cut the cable 15 years ago after I lost my free cable. Not paying for that trash its like 200 a month! OH but wait I get a digital phone that only works out in my front yard to have telemarketers calls me. TRIPLE PLAY BUNDLE Guess what comcast your bundle was a fail as cell phone took over a few years later.
All these buildings that caught fire in the 70s &80s.. how come they don't cumble to the ground?
At 05;36 - hey isn't that Champ Kind from San Diego's Channel 4 news shimmying down that knotted sheet?
My only question would be how did the fully engulfed first and second floors of this high rise structure built under the codes of 1973, withstand the heat and flames and remain standing while the World Trade Center building #7, that was built under the codes of 2002 collapsed like a house of cards with only a few scattered office fires burning ?
Controlled demolition by our own people. Disgust.
The old commercials 😂
lol...no one going to carry duck tape with them..they'll think your trying to kidnap someone...rip to all the poor poor souls who lost their lives at the MGM fire on Nov 21st 1980
The fire didnt kill people. Smoke did. Shaftways with no draft stop. Dbl 5\8" x board. Shit some is dbl 1"
1981 in bally hotel & casino
Creepy priest.
Didn't trump own it