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Breaking: Explosion and Fire Near Monte Carlo

We're hearing various reports that there has been an explosion and fire at the Monte Carlo, most likely centered at the electrical plant located at Rue de Monte Carlo and Frank Sinatra drive. We will be updating this as more information arises.

Photo of the fireball.

Earlier account by LVCabChronicles: "Holy Shit fire at monte carlo elec plant. I just was 100 ft past it on way to nyny and BOOM like a bomb went off. All the lights went out"

12:44: A photo of the fireball and thick black smoke by @aprilcore.

12:51: Alternate view of fireball from opposite side of freeway. This is definitely the electrical center.

1:00am Another photo of the fireball from @spencerholladay

Power is out inside the hotel, fire appears to be confined to the substation called out in the map above.

1:03 Northbound I-15 is closed.

1:09 Map update to better pinpoint exact location. Thanks Blackjacker1979 for the tip.

1:15 Video of fire from YouTube user WhoIsApril:

1:18 Another photo from @AmyG2G

Still no official word from Monte Carlo's social media accounts or from @montecarloprez

1:28 Power appears to be out throughout City Center - Aria, Harmon, Mandarin, Vdara et al.

1:29 Firefighters on scanner: "it's gonna take some time to knock this down, but it will when we sit on it for a while"

1:36 Firefighters on scanner: "knock down looking pretty good"

1:38 "We do have a knock down."

This could mean that all of CityCenter & Monte Carlo might be closed for an extended period of time. If you have reservations for any of the potentially affected properties, you may need to make alternate arrangements.

1:41 Power might be out at Cosmopolitan as well.

1:43 Police: "We need to shut down everything from CityCenter to Bellagio on the Las Vegas strip."

1:46 Power confirmed out at Vdara

1:48 Metro are en route to shutting down the Strip.

1:49 Metro cautioning officers to stay out of smoke path... fire isn't out.

1:50 Explosion could've been caused by an auto/truck... lots of chatter about "what does the truck look like" on Metro.

1:51 Metro requesting more units to Harmon and Las Vegas boulevard for Strip closure

1:57 The party is still raging at Marquee... power still on at Cosmopolitan.

2:00 Power outage at ARIA causing slot machines to show boot screens.

2:01 CityCenter in darkness

2:04 "Utter chaos #Aria"

2:05 "No biggie, bring out mo bottles (Deuce @ Aria)"

2:06 Police "The only power outages we are having are in CityCenter." Could be referring only to traffic lights.

2:09 Some are reporting that traffic is starting to move on I-15.

2:25 Sorry for the lack of updates... had to walk the dog. Her eyes went sideways and foot started twitching... that means "I gotta poo!"

2:29 "Power won't reset, when it gets turned on it immediately trips." VegasTripping yo!

2:30 Monte Carlo parking garage closed (as expected) you can forget getting your wheels outta there for a while.

2:33 "Lights are coming on slowly at Aria. Vdara still in darkness"

2:43 Traffic lights still out on the Strip. Metro paging more units.

2:47 Scanner: "Someone hit a transformer between 12 and 1am"

2:54 Metro still blocking traffic at CityCenter

2:57 "45 min to get out of the Planet Hollywood parking structure"

2:59 "Hey las vegas- gallery has plenty of power at Planet Hollywood" - @samantharonson

3:07 "I'm stuck at [Monte Carlo] and security said they would arrest me if I tried to leave" @john_nissan

3:11 The fire isn't out but the lights are.

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