The Degree, UNLV’s new 226-unit apartment complex, is complete and open for student living on campus. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
At approximately 3:35pm on Monday, July 01, 2019, Clark County Fire and Rescue along with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue responded to an apartment fire at 5100 E. Tropicana. Only one minor injury was reported. (Mat Luschek / Review-Journal)
One person was displaced early Tuesday morning after a fire at a central valley apartment complex.
The fire was called in about 3:30 a.m. at the Lantana Apartments at 1200 S. Torrey Pines Drive, near Charleston Boulevard.
The fire started with an air conditioning unit on the roof of a building in the complex. The fire didn’t extend to the inside of the building, but one of the apartments was damaged by smoke and water.
No injuries were reported, and the fire was out within about 30 minutes.