LAS VEGAS (AP) " Flames raced through a wing of vacant rooms at an historic but long-shuttered hotel-casino Wednesday, six years after another fire destroyed the main casino building.
No injuries were immediately reported in the four-alarm blaze at the Moulin Rouge, the first integrated gambling hall in Las Vegas.
The fire was reported before noon and cast a large plume of smoke over the property in the historically black West Las Vegas neighborhood about a mile northwest of downtown.
More than 100 firefighters from Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Clark County used ladder trucks to shower a two-story wing of about 40 rooms with water and control the fire, Las Vegas city spokesman Jace Radke said.
"They stopped it from spreading to other buildings," Radke said.
Authorities planned to bulldoze the structure once the fire was declared out.
Radke said it was too early to determine a cause of the fire or provide a damage estimate.
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