Four people died in a house fire in Las Vegas. Now the house is mostly demolished Southwest

All that remains of the house where the close-knit Adem family lived is a pile of charred rubble, fragments of the ground floor walls and stairs leading to nowhere.

On Tuesday afternoon, a temporary fence guarded the front of the house, and red signs announced the obvious: it was a dangerous building and uninhabitable.

Home at 8332 Langhorne Creek St. in southwest Las Vegas was largely demolished on Monday after Thursday’s fire, which broke out early in the morning who killed four people. The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified the victims as 48-year-old Ibrahim Adem, 43-year-old Abdusalem Adem, 7-year-old Anaya Adem and 6-year-old Aaliyah Adem.

Awet Adem previously provided different spellings of some of the victims’ names. On Monday, he said his brothers Abdul and Ibrahim Adem, as well as Abdul Adem’s children Anaya and Aaliayh, died in the fire.

Abdul Adem’s wife, Senait Adem, and her son Amani survived by jumping from a third-story window. According to a. As the rest of the family was getting ready to leave, the roof and floor collapsed GoFundMe page for the family.

Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling said the county building department “deemed the house posed an imminent hazard.”

“Our fire and building officials had concerns about further structural collapse and the need to protect nearby properties,” she said. “The walls were demolished to reduce the risk of further collapse.”

She added that it would take “some time” to demolish everything. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire, she said.

Greg Barstow, owner of the demolition company CGI Development of Nevada, said the demolition was ordered by the county, which was concerned that the remains of the house could fall on neighboring homes. The fire was so hot that the floors in the rooms collapsed and the side walls were left “like paper floating in the wind,” he said.

He said crews brought the house down to the first floor in about two and a half hours and left the rubble in place, keeping the debris within three walls.

Firefighters were trying to pull a stove and a dryer from the rubble, said Barstow, who didn’t think investigators would discover any of those items.

“It’s just tragic and sad and unfortunate when we have to see things like this,” Barstow said.

Next door neighbor Jerome Candate said he was told to leave the house yesterday for demolition. The wind was blowing against one of the walls and “they were afraid it might blow into my house,” he said.

Candate said the Adems were good neighbors and a “beautiful family.”

He said that in his opinion their house should be rebuilt.

“Keep moving so that healing can begin,” Candate said.

On Tuesday, a makeshift memorial was erected across the street from the Adems’ home. There were flowers, plush toys and candles.

People stopped to add to the monument or say a prayer.

In the afternoon, the little girl and her father paid their respects.

“Anaya was a sweet girl,” Shawn Prisco said.

Seven-year-old Brooklyn Prisco said Anaya was one of her classmates. She wanted to leave her a photo of the cake “because I was sad that she died,” she said.

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