Automatic fire sprinklers, interconnected smoke alarms and more frequent inspections top the wish list of officials looking to make homes in the Las Vegas Valley safer from fire.
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A team of Las Vegas fire inspectors is scrutinizing apartments in the city’s oldest and most urban neighborhoods — places with the highest loss of life, the highest need and the highest call volume.
The Westlake Apartments blaze from nearly two years ago reflects the higher fire risk in Las Vegas’ older, urban areas.
While hotels on the Strip have become fireproof fortresses and commercial buildings soak up most of the attention from understaffed inspection agencies, fire safety in the valley’s urban core has been left behind, sometimes with deadly consequences.