“Please be aware, in the near future, CCFD crews will take part in various exercises, including burning existing structures,” the sign declared. The homebuilder posted a sign on one of its parcels along Valley View alerting people to upcoming fires, saying it was “proud to partner” with the fire department “by donating this site for training purposes.” The spread was mostly vacant land but also included four houses, county records indicate. Richmond American purchased 29 acres of real estate off Valley View between Cactus and Pyle avenues for $16.9 million combined, in deals that closed Sept. Longtime Las Vegas developer Larry Canarelli indicated he had probably donated more homes than any other builder in town for public-safety training, estimating he had given about a dozen houses over the years.Ĭanarelli, who sold the local construction operations of his firm American West Homes in 2019, said he donated houses that were first used for SWAT training and then burned by fire crews.ĭonating a house has some liability issues, he noted, and overall, it would be “a lot easier if we just went in and tore the house down.”īut the donations help build relationships with public-safety agencies, and first-responders get “invaluable” training, Canarelli said. “This is something I can’t really recall seeing much at all in the past,” he said, adding builders have to “get creative” as the valley’s inventory of choice parcels shrinks.
But he is seeing more land purchases in which builders assemble multiple parcels, some of which have houses.
Jared Johnson said.Īndrew Smith, president of Las Vegas-based Home Builders Research, said he had never heard of local developers giving houses to firefighters for training. “It’s about as real-world as it can get,” Clark County Fire Capt. But officials say house donations provide valuable training opportunities, as crews go into unknown buildings to fight fires just as they would in actual emergencies. Southern Nevada homebuilders frequently buy project sites that are empty tracts of land, with no structures to demolish. The so-called live-fire training, off Valley View Boulevard and Cactus Avenue, offered a glimpse into a seemingly little-known slice of Las Vegas’ housing market: Instead of demolishing homes, builders sometimes give them to firefighters to burn to the ground. One Friday afternoon last month, after fire crews trained in a house over the course of three days, they stripped the drywall, went outside and watched as the one-story house went up in flames. Having bought nearly $17 million worth of real estate in the southern Las Vegas Valley, Richmond American Homes donated houses to the Clark County Fire Department for training. If you’re a developer, what’s one way to get rid of some houses to clear space for a new project? A sign from Richmond American Homes is seen on Valley View Boulevard north of Cactus Avenue in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Oct.
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