Casinos open rooms to Vegas-area wildfire evacuees
By KEN RITTERBy KEN RITTER, Associated Press?
?The Las Vegas Strip skyline is seen as smoke continues to billow from the Carpenter 1 fire on Mount Charleston on Monday, July 8, 2013 in Las Vegas. Homes were threatened, but more than 750 firefighters, including 18 elite Hotshot crews, were battling the Carpenter 1 Fire some 25 miles northwest of Las Vegas, said Jay Nichols, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, David Becker)
The Las Vegas Strip skyline is seen as smoke continues to billow from the Carpenter 1 fire on Mount Charleston on Monday, July 8, 2013 in Las Vegas. Homes were threatened, but more than 750 firefighters, including 18 elite Hotshot crews, were battling the Carpenter 1 Fire some 25 miles northwest of Las Vegas, said Jay Nichols, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, David Becker)
A smoke plume from the fires near Mount Charleston hangs over downtown Las Vegas on Monday July 8, 2013 and stretched dozens of miles. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Norm Clarke)
Smoke pouring from the fires in the Mount Charleston area west of Las Vegas created a fiery sunset on Monday July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Norm Clarke)
Residents have their identification checked at a check point on Hwy 89 near outside of Yarnell, Ariz. on Monday, July 8, 2013, as evacuees from Yarnell and Illah are let back into their homes after being evacuated June 30. Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew died fighting the Yarnell Hills Fire, about 40 miles southwest of Prescott. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
The Las Vegas Strip skyline is seen as smoke continues to billow from the Carpenter 1 fire on Mount Charleston on Monday, July 8, 2013 in Las Vegas. Homes were threatened, but more than 750 firefighters, including 18 elite Hotshot crews, were battling the Carpenter 1 Fire some 25 miles northwest of Las Vegas, said Jay Nichols, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, David Becker)
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Several local casino companies are teaming with the American Red Cross of Southern Nevada to provide hotel rooms to people evacuated from their homes due to a wildfire in the mountains northwest of Las Vegas.
Cannery Casino Resorts executive Xavier Walsh said Tuesday that his company is making 40 rooms available to displaced families.
The wildfire was sparked by lightning eight days ago on Mount Charleston and is burning near homes in Kyle Canyon.
Red Cross spokesman Lloyd Ziel says people who need shelter should contact volunteers at shelters at Hafen Elementary School in Pahrump or Bilbray Elementary School in Las Vegas.
Officials say no homes have been damaged and none of about 800 firefighters has been injured battling the 31-square-mile Carpenter 1 fire on Mount Charleston.
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