Early morning fire badly damages home in east Las Vegas
Clark County firefighters were on the scene of a fire in the 3700 block of Edison Avenue, near Desert Inn Road and South Pecos Road, just after 7 a.m. Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Firefighters and Las Vegas police closed off Edison Road near the scene as they extinguished the blaze. (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark County firefighters were on the scene of a fire in the 3700 block of Edison Avenue, near Desert Inn Road and South Pecos Road, just after 7 a.m. Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Firefighters and Las Vegas police closed off Edison Road near the scene as they extinguished the blaze. (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark County firefighters were on the scene of a fire in the 3700 block of Edison Avenue, near Desert Inn Road and South Pecos Road, just after 7 a.m. Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Firefighters and Las Vegas police closed off Edison Road near the scene as they extinguished the blaze. (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Updated January 18, 2021 - 10:40 am
An east Las Vegas home was badly damaged by fire early Monday.
Clark County firefighters were called about 6:50 a.m. to the home at 3516 Edison Ave., near Desert Inn and Pecos roads, according to Assistant Fire Chief Scott Carnahan.
Arriving firefighters battled a fire in a backyard shed that had spread to the house, Carnahan said. The fire was extinguished at 7:20 a.m., he said.
No injuries were reported.
Contact Glenn Puit at gpuit@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0390. Follow @GlennatRJ on Twitter. Review-Journal staff writer Blake Apgar contributed to this report.
