11:01 a.m.: Time the first fire alarm rang inside of the Monte Carlo
1 hour and 14 minutes: Amount of time the fire burned
120: Number of firefighters responding to the scene
3,000: Number of guest rooms in the Monte Carlo
950: Number of employees working at that hour
97 percent: Occupancy rate of the hotel that day
95 percent: Typical weekend occupancy rate of Strip hotels.
80 percent: Occupancy rate at Mandalay Bay, allowing the MGM property to absorb most of the Monte Carlo refugees
32: Number of floors in the Monte Carlo
26: Number of floors deemed habitable by Clark County Fire inspectors
17: Number of people taken to the hospital for minor injuries
$12.68: Amount of money the Monte Carlo lost per second while closed, according to the Las Vegas Sun
1996: Year the Monte Carlo was built
13th: Ranking of the Monte Carlo in terms of largest Vegas casino-hotels
9: Number of rubbernecking motorists on 1-15 who nearly crashed trying to gander at the blaze, as counted by a Weekly writer narrowly avoiding crash
4: Times a Weekly writer sped up to distance himself from other motorists so he could do some rubbernecking of his own
3: Number of properties, in addition to the Monte Carlo, that KVVU-TV Fox 5 anchor Monica Jackson said were evacuated early on
0: Number of properties, excluding the Monte Carlo, that were actually evacuated
3: Number of radio, print and television news personalities who criticized Jackson’s report
1: Rank of the Review-Journal’s website among media outlets that actually first reported that three properties were being evacuated and workers were trapped on the roof
0: Amount of information MGM Mirage execs are giving about the estimated cost of damages to the resort.
5: Number of news crews observed on the scene of the fire
1: Number of homeless men observed sleeping through the chaos outside of the New York-New York
2: Number of Weekly staff writer Julie Seabaugh’s parents who refuse to come to Vegas now because “casinos aren’t safe anymore”