Fire-Safety

Illustration: black smoke rolls up from the burning entrance canopy of a 1970s Las Vegas hotel at dawn, the hotel tower behind it, fire engines small in the foreground.

The MGM Grand Fire, 1980: As If You Were There

A ten-minute reconstruction of the November 21, 1980 MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas: the spark in The Deli, a guest who walks out of the casino just ahead of the flames, a guest on the 21st floor who never hears an alarm, and how smoke killed 61 people in a tower the fire never reached.