A fire broke out Friday night at Moon Valley Nursery near South Eastern Avenue and the 215 Beltway in Henderson, sending one firefighter to the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury as crews worked to knock down the flames. The Clark County Fire Department responded at approximately 9:05 p.m. after reports of a fire at the nursery, with firefighters finding smoke coming from the building's roof.
Kenny Holding, a senior deputy fire chief with the Clark County Fire Department, said crews responded to reports of a fire at the nursery and that the injured firefighter was taken to a local hospital, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Firefighters ultimately extinguished the fire, though Holding said the cause remained under investigation. The Henderson Fire Department assisted Clark County crews at the scene, a routine arrangement given the property's location in an unincorporated pocket of Clark County near the Henderson municipal line.
Photographer Madeline Carter captured images of firefighters working the scene at the nursery, which sits at 9040 S. Eastern Ave. That address places it near Pebble Road as one of Moon Valley Nurseries' three primary retail and landscape design centers in the Las Vegas valley, alongside locations on West Charleston Boulevard and Tule Springs Road.
A Demanding Night for Local Crews
The nursery fire capped an already busy night for area fire crews. Hours earlier, the Henderson Fire Department had responded to a two-alarm fire at a three-story office building on St. Rose Parkway between Eastern Avenue and the 215 Beltway, a complex that housed general contracting offices and medical facilities, as Hoodline reported.
Because the nursery sits in unincorporated Clark County along a corridor bordering Henderson, emergency response there automatically triggers mutual aid between the two departments. It's a structure that reflects how commercial sites along major thoroughfares near jurisdictional lines routinely rely on inter-departmental dispatch agreements. Clark County and Henderson fire crews have a long history of joint operations on large commercial and multi-family blazes, including a four-alarm mobile home park fire in June 2021 that drew more than 100 firefighters and left two with non-life-threatening injuries.
Founded in Phoenix, Now a Regional Landscaping Giant
Moon Valley Nurseries got its start in 1995 when founder Les Blake opened a pumpkin patch and Christmas tree lot in Phoenix, Arizona, before growing the operation into one of the largest box tree nursery and landscape businesses in North America. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records show Moon Valley Nursery of Las Vegas LLC operates an active private intrastate motor carrier fleet based at the Eastern Avenue site, maintaining 10 commercial power units and 12 registered drivers to support tree delivery and installation work.
Nevada counties and local fire districts, under Nevada Revised Statute 244.2961, maintain broad authority to enforce fire safety codes and regulate the storage of combustible or hazardous materials on commercial properties — a standard relevant to nurseries, which typically store fertilizers and irrigation equipment subject to local code enforcement.
Broader Investments in Fire Response Capacity
The Friday night blaze comes as Clark County continues to expand its firefighting infrastructure. In June, the county broke ground on a $93 million project to build a new fire station and training complex near The Orleans, replacing the department's aging training facilities. Construction also began earlier this year on Fire Station 62, a $10.9 million, 11,000-square-foot facility designed to shorten response times in the growing eastern Las Vegas valley — the first new station built in that part of the valley in more than two decades.
Southern Nevada crews have also been stretched by responsibilities beyond local structure fires. Earlier this month, Clark County and Henderson fire departments sent a joint strike team of five engines, two water tenders, and support personnel to assist with suppression efforts on the 8,700-acre Ward Fire in White Pine County. The full extent of any structural or inventory damage at the Henderson nursery, along with the fire's cause, remains under investigation.
