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Millions of tourists each year worry at the thought of a fire breaking out in their high rise hotel and killing people before they can be rescued. Patrons of the MGM Grand Hotel experienced just that on the day of November 21, 1980. The hotel fire made international news and provided the basis for fire safety guidelines throughout the country. When all was said and done, 85 people died and many more were injured. The disaster still ranks as the worst in Nevada’s history to this day. Many hotels changed their protocols and many fire departments worked to improve their response times following the fire at MGM. Everyone did not agree with the changes however, namely lobbyists, who argued that putting a smoke detector in each room would be too costly.