Incident number:  9297088            Date:  Dec. 23, 2009            Time of call:  4:52 a.m.

Type of call:  House Fire

Correct address: 2109 Wengert Ave. (Eastern Avenue/Oakey Boulevard)               CLV Ward:  3

Name:  Eastwood                                                                        Parcel: 162-01-210-027
                                
Zip:   89104                        District/Phantom: 2527-31                   Number of alarms: One

Building type: Single Family Residential                  Number of stories:  One                  Units:  

Size:  972 sq. ft                                           When built:   1953    
                           
Construction type: Wood frame/stucco             Smoke alarms:  No         Sprinklers: No        

Number of occupants:  Adults: Seven          Teens (18-13): None        Children: No

Any injuries: Yes              How many: Two         Type:  Elderly male adult – 40 percent third degree burns to hands, arms, neck and head, taken to University Medical Center. One other adult male had burns to hands also admitted to UMC.
 
Damage estimate: $50,000 
                       
Description of damage:  House completely gutted inside, nothing salvageable.  Structure appears to be intact.

Cause of incident:  Under investigation

American Red Cross: Yes            Pets:  Three     Status of pets:  One is okay with owner, two unaccounted for.
  
General information about the incident:   Seven adults rent rooms in this house.  The elderly man woke up to go to the bathroom and noticed a fire, outside on the patio.  He woke the others in the house.  They opened the back door to smother the fire using a blanket.  Intense 30-40 mile per hour winds fanned the flames at that point, the man said the fire sucked his blanket out of hands and he fire grew greatly in intensity.  The people then ran out the front door.  The wind blew through the house like a wind tunnel, taking the fire with it.  As the elderly man was exiting he was badly burned.  Firefighters arrived on scene and said the fire was blowing out the front door like a blowtorch.  The elderly man who was burned was in the street and was immediately taken to UMC.  Cause of the fire is under investigation, appears to have started outside, fanned by high winds and spread to interior of the home.  The Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Foundation provided financial assistance to the occupants of the house.  The American Red Cross was expected to assist the victims later in the day.