NBC Nightly News - Nov 21, 1980 - MGM Grand Fire
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@patronsaintofpoison they didn't build Bally's on the site they simply changed the name. The same building that was on fire is the same one that is parallel to flamingo.
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LMAO to the people dat think dey are victims just cuz dey were born around dat time or stayed der before the fire started..
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It was actually 85 people
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the only one i remember was Tom Brokaw
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I live in Vegas. I was born in '85 so I don't remember it, ofcourse, but it is something everybody knows about. They built Bally's over the site of the original MGM and I can't bring myself to go in there. Really a terrible tragedy, like you heard in the video, so many of those people never stood a chance.
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2:05 . . . Fire alarm system knocked out ??? Damn
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@mathewbailey08 People were trapped in stairwells too. Very sad.
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I was in Vegas and staying at the MGM Grand hotel exactly a week before the fire. What a surprise when I saw news of the fire. It still haunts me.
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i was lucky...i made it out...
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30 Years Ago Today. May the victims rest in peace.
Roger Mudd is awesome
BojanglesUdon 4 years ago 7
There was another infamous hotel fire just a couple of weeks later on Dec. 4, 1980 at the Stouffer Inn in Harrison, NY. And then in July 1981 was the walkways collapse at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency.
blanchelincoln 3 years ago 4