Woman found dead after RV fire in Las Vegas is identified

By Blake Apgar / Las Vegas Review-Journal

January 31, 2018 - 4:21 pm

Updated January 31, 2018 - 10:47 pm

Las Vegas firefighters found a body inside a parked RV after beating back a fire that engulfed the vehicle near Rancho and Vegas drives, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. (Twitter/Las Vegas Fire Department)

The woman whose body was found last week after an RV fire has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.

The body of Carolyn Heath, 54, was discovered by firefighters after they extinguished the fire in the vehicle, which was parked on the 1600 block of Primrose Path, near North Rancho and Vegas drives.

Heath’s cause and manner of death are still pending, the coroner’s office said Wednesday afternoon.

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

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