LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County coroner’s workplace helped switch 146 our bodies from a now-closed Las Vegas funeral dwelling to a different, a spokesperson mentioned.
Two weeks in the past, the Nevada Board of Funeral and Cemetery Providers voted to drag the license of McDermott’s Funeral House and Cremation Providers. The board met over two days to evaluate 4 complaints filed towards the enterprise, which is situated in an industrial space on Western Avenue close to Sahara Avenue.
The board discovered the enterprise didn’t well timed bury or cremate our bodies — together with one case the place a girl was not cremated for nearly 11 months, paperwork mentioned.
On Friday, Aug. 8, the 8 Information Now Investigators recorded coroner employees transferring our bodies from the property. The stays had been transferred to Davis Funeral House.
“The team at Davis is working through each case with care, compassion, and urgency. However, as you can imagine, the scale of this situation is overwhelming,” Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse mentioned in a press release. “We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding as the staff navigates this difficult process.”
Images offered in board documentation present stained sheets, which the inspector notes weren’t modified after a subsequent inspection. Throughout one go to, the inspector famous “fluids of a body… had dripped onto a body on a lower shelf and onto the floor.”
In a response to the allegations, the funeral director wrote to the board, indicating a lot of the our bodies awaiting burial or cremation concerned social providers and that “takes weeks, months or in extreme cases over a year to complete.” That course of includes the county paying for the funeral dwelling’s providers if a household can’t or if the individual doesn’t have subsequent of kin.
In 2021, the board cited McDermott’s for the same delay in service.
A consultant from McDermott’s didn’t reply to a request to schedule an interview.
Seven members comprise the board, together with two who oversee funeral providers at two competing Las Vegas funeral properties, in accordance with the board’s web site.
8 Information Now Investigator David Charns could be reached at [email protected].
