Little old ladies love Las Vegas fireman Chris Stiles, who has been known to bring in their mail or put away groceries after helping them up from a fall. But next year, it’s safe to say the 26-year-old will have a new flock of women calling themselves his fans — and not just for his good deeds. The Las Vegas native stripped down to his bunker pants, showing off his perfectly sculpted abs for the first-ever national fireman’s calendar.
In her communications with at least a dozen species, she has learned dolphins think humans should stick together more, a dog told her the family’s daughter struggled with homework, and one horse’s fear to complete a water jump set in precisely four strides before the leap. As if she were Miss Cleo, the animal communicator works best on phone call readings in which she looks at a pet’s photograph.
The drama is just part of their stressful, successful business — and now, their reality show, “Flipping Vegas.” Working on tight deadlines to transform run-down abandoned properties for profit, the show follows their work, which the couple say is always full of action in the city that never sleeps.
I have lived in Vegas my entire life, so naturally, I have visited the nearby Red Rock Canyon National Conservation area dozens of times. But today I really noticed its beauty.
A pair having sex in the stands, nonresponsive ravers laid out on stretchers, auto burglaries and assaults. Dispatch calls were steady but not necessarily surprising to police officers at the Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-day, DJ-fueled music festival known for its fans’ rampant Ecstasy use. Although emergency responders anticipated Day 2 of the all-night party to be the worst of it, the Saturday night/early Sunday installment delivered much of the same — dehydration, excessive intoxication — but no fatalities.
So, hundreds of teachers — the district employs 18,000 — have to wait to hear whether they will have a job on the first day of school.
