'I immediately turned toward the elevator. 'There were people streaming by and there was smoke and there was all sort of hubbub going on my floor,' remembers Eden. RELATED | VIDEO VAULT | All aboard the original Las Vegas monorail She grabbed a few things and headed into the hallway.'

'It was disturbing enough to make me get up and go to the door and look out.' 'And the sound that I heard was so eerie that obviously, something was wrong,' says Eden today. She was living temporarily on the 11th floor of the hotel when noises outside the door awoke her. It was early on a Friday morning when people around the valley started to notice smoke coming from the MGM Grand Hotel - today Bally's Grand - and calls began pouring into the Channel-3 newsroom.įormer dancer and actress Diana Eden was working as a costume designer at the time for the new production show 'Jubilee' then entering final rehearsals before debuting in the MGM showroom. LAS VEGAS (KSNV) - Novemmarks 40 years since the worst disaster in Nevada history in terms of loss of life.

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