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The Alpine Motel Apartments fire occurred in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 21, 2019.The three-story building, constructed in 1972, had failed several fire inspections and received numerous code enforcement complaints in the years prior to the fire.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan ... is a combined city and county law enforcement agency for the City of Las Vegas and ... Construction was completed on LVMPD's 370,500 ...
It is located in Downtown Las Vegas. The 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m 2) complex was designed by Fentress Bradburn and opened in 1995. It consists of a six-story county administration building, three one-story buildings for the county commissioners’ chambers, a multipurpose community facility and a central plant.
Voters in 1986 approved a quarter cent sales tax to fund construction of regional flood control facilities. The first project began in 1988. As of June 2013, a total of $1.7 bill was spent on flood control, including construction of 90 detention basins and approximately 581 miles of channels and underground storm drains.
One officer was assigned to Las Vegas, Reno and Elko. This part of the Nevada State Police remained operational until the State Police were reorganized in 1943. At that time, the Nevada State Highway Patrol was absorbed into the State Police who continued highway law enforcement until 1949 when the Nevada Highway Patrol was organized.
The agency is part of the city of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety (LVDPS). [1] City marshals are Nevada state-certified law enforcement officers and hold concurrent jurisdiction within the city alongside the primary law enforcement agency for the Las Vegas metropolitan area, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The LVCM consisted ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Nevada. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies , the state had 76 law enforcement agencies employing 6,643 sworn police officers, about 254 for each 100,000 residents.
On November 21, 1980, the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (now Horseshoe Las Vegas) in Paradise, Nevada suffered a major fire. The fire killed 85 people, most through smoke inhalation. [ 5 ] The CCFD was the first agency to respond, and thus was in command at the scene of the fire, which remains the worst disaster in Nevada history, and the third ...