Victims of the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas history still suffer from PTSD, long-lasting injuries and struggle to make a living while court case drags on.
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New owners of the downtown Las Vegas property plan to turn the Alpine Motel Apartments into modern studio units. Adolfo Orozco sold the building in August 2021.
It’s been a year since the dilapidated Alpine Motel Apartments caught fire. New records detail what went wrong and what could have kept six people from dying.
The listing follows the sale of more than $5 million worth of other properties. Adolfo Orozco faces involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the downtown fire.
After the Alpine Motel Apartments fire, the city will vote for proactive reforms for stricter enforcement of older buildings with code violations to avoid loss of life from fires.
The owner of the Alpine Motel has put the property up for sale and sold more than half of his Nevada real estate this summer worth more than $5 million, records show.
Las Vegas police repeatedly tried to make a chronic nuisance case against the Alpine Motel before a fatal fire in 2019, but city officials said the apartments didn’t meet the standards.
The downtown apartment building, focus of a criminal investigation, was burglarized three days last week and officers arrested two suspects.
A court filing shows investigators seized an Alpine owner’s cellphone and alleges that a live-in property manager “ordered” the rear door bolted shut before the deadly Dec. 21 fire.
Before a fire that killed six people, it had been 32 months since a downtown building had received a city fire inspection, despite a history of code violations going back more than a decade.