PHOTOS: A catastrophic fire tore through the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, now the site of Horseshoe Hotel & Casino, on the Las Vegas Strip on Nov. 21, 1980, killing 87 people and injuring nearly 700. It was the worst fire in Las Vegas history and captured worldwide attention. The electrical fire started shortly after 7 a.m. in a wall in the hotel’s deli. When the flames burned through the wall, the fire erupted quickly into a fast-moving fireball that raced through the casino and sent toxic smoke into the property’s 2,000 rooms. No alarm was sounded to warn guests as the deadly fumes from the fire went through the ventilation system into the hotel rooms causing most of the deaths.
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