Neglect and Poor Training Led to Fatal Fire at Las Vegas Apartment Complex

LAS VEGAS, April 29, 2025— An apartment complex owner’s negligence and the lack of training of management personnel led to the deaths of two men in a devastating fire on July 28, 2024, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month on behalf of the families.

Vincent Richard Herrera, 23, and Kameron Peyton Moore, 24, were trapped and killed during a fire that broke out on the patio below Moore’s unit at the Riverbend Village Apartments on Spencer Street.

The apartment building had no pull-down fire alarms and management personnel failed to warn residents that their lives were in danger as they watched the growing fire climb up the side of a building, according to the lawsuit filed April 7, 2025, in Clark County District Court.

“These young men should not have died,” said attorney Gustavo Boldrini, of Los Angeles’ Custodio & Dubey. “Why did this building still have no pull-down fire alarms, even though the infrastructure for installing them was ready? These owners failed to properly inspect this building, failed to implement cheap and effective safety features, despite several previous fires, and failed to train their management personnel. Who simply stands by and does nothing to warn people while a fire spreads to the roof of an occupied apartment building?”

Moore and Herrera were trapped inside the blazing building. Firefighters found Moore unresponsive beneath debris inside the apartment, with burns over half his body. He died the next morning from asphyxia and carbon monoxide poisoning. Herrera’s body was later found in the wreckage after his mother, Ronise Herrera, begged fire fighters to keep searching for her son.

The fire affected 13 other units and left 30 other residents, some injured, without their homes.

The lawsuit names Riverbend Village Partners, LLC, several affiliated trusts and managing entities, the property management company, Advanced Management Group Nevada LLC (AMG), and its managing agents Bret and Kathleen Holmes as defendants. They are accused of wrongful death, negligence, negligent hiring and more.

It also lists unknown corporations believed to have been responsible for manufacturing or maintaining the smoke detectors inside Moore’s apartment, which reportedly failed to sound during the fire. This robbed Moore and Herrera of critical seconds to escape.

Riverbend Village has a documented history of fires — at least six since 2008 — including multiple incidents where smoke detectors failed to activate. In previous fires in 2017 and 2020, firefighters had noted that fire alarms did not alert occupants, which management and property owners did nothing to address, according to the lawsuit. This problem with the smoke alarms was known by management, but not disclosed to the people who lived there, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that exactly like this deadly fire, a fire in 2020 began in the balcony of an apartment and climbed to the attic, injuring a tenant.

“In addition to failing to properly maintain fire safety equipment, and inspect the property for safety measures, the defendants neglected to adequately train employees on emergency procedures,” said co-counsel for plaintiffs, Jamie S. Cogburn of Cogburn Davidson. “After years of similar incidents, another deadly fire was foreseeable and preventable.”

The lawsuit Ronise Herrera, et al. v. Riverbend Village Partners, LLC, Advanced Management Group, et al., Case No. A-25-916236-C, was filed April 7, 2025, in Clark County District Court.

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About Gustavo Boldrini: Attorney Gustavo Silvestre Boldrini, of Custodio & Dubey LLP, uses his extensive defense experience to advocate for individuals, ensuring their rights are protected against corporations and property owners.