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Clark County firefighters fight blaze near Las Vegas Strip

By Blake Apgar / Las Vegas Review-Journal

August 5, 2018 - 4:12 pm

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a storage yard on the 3100 block of Highland Drive below the Desert Inn overpass in Las Vegas on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a storage yard on the 3100 block of Highland Drive below the Desert Inn overpass in Las Vegas on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a storage yard on the 3100 block of Highland Drive below the Desert Inn overpass in Las Vegas on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph

The Treasure Island hotel-casino is seen through thick smoke as firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a storage yard on the 3100 block of Highland Drive below the Desert Inn overpass in Las Vegas on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph

A debris fire produced plumes of smoke near the north end of the Strip on Sunday afternoon.

Clark County fire officials were called just before 2:30 p.m. to the fire on the 3100 block of Highland Drive, near Desert Inn Road and Interstate 15, dispatch logs show.

No one was hurt in the blaze, and no buildings were threatened by the fire, Deputy Fire Chief Jon Klassen said.

Contact Blake Apgar at bapgar@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5298. Follow @blakeapgar on Twitter.

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