![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the Deli no longer was open 24/7 and the fire began while the Deli was closed for the night. Had the Deli still been open around the clock like it had been when the hotel originally opened, the fire would likely have been spotted and contained easily. The fire began there and burned for a while, undetected. The vibration of the rotating cabinet had caused the wiring to fray and the wires rubbed together. That wiring powered the refrigeration unit for a nearby food cabinet display. The fire had been sparked by wiring inside the soffit. On November 21, 1980, early in the morning, a fire, that had started hours earlier, broke through a wall soffit in The Deli and roared into the casino. It was the deadlist hotel fire in Nevada history and the second deadlist in American history. There were, by estimates, 5,000 guests staying the luxury hotel on the morning of the fire. It was a hotel to remember.īut in 1980, an early morning fire changed forever the way we remember that beautiful hotel. The shopping area, located downstairs from the main casino floor, was filled with high-end stores and at the end, a movie theater that played classic studio era MGM films. Every facet of the hotel oozed with class from its casino that was the size of three football fields, to its MGM themed high-end gourmet restaurants such as Gigi's, Barrymores and Tracey's. When the original MGM Grand Hotel opened in 1973, it was the most lavish hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. ![]()
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