Update 6:15 PM Sunday: The Las Vegas Fire Department is reporting the fire has been extinguised and evacuees are being let back into the property. Apparently the small electrical fire produced a great deal of smoke before being extinguished. The two people taken away to a local hospital for smoke inhalation have been treated and released. A firefighter was treated at the seen for smoke ingestion.

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In the continuing saga of what bad thing will happen next to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas we can now add fire. This afternoon, Sunday, around 4 PM the Las Vegas fire department was called to the property after a fiire was reported and the property was evacuated. Patrons, dealers, and other employees were left standing in the parking lots surrounding the property after a full exodus was declared.

At least two people were taken away in ambulances according to eyewitnesses and additional fire trucks were called to the scene. Further info on this breaking story as details become available.