Mark Wahlberg’s new Las Vegas restaurant goes up in flames

Actor Mark Wahlberg’s Las Vegas Mexican edifice caught fire on Wednesday, little than 2 months aft its grand opening successful September.

The blaze astatine Flecha Cantina reportedly stemmed from a faulty outdoor firepit around 5:30 p.m. section time, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The occurrence was captured successful aggregate videos shared connected X, which seemingly showed the flames surging connected the terrace successful beforehand of the edifice arsenic alarms blared successful the background.

The occurrence started connected the patio, according to a witness. No injuries reported. pic.twitter.com/dD2BiJE6jU

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Despite however melodramatic the blaze looks successful 1 peculiar clip, changeable from wrong a passing car, Wahlburgers CEO Randy Sharpe assured the Review-Journal it wasn’t arsenic destructive arsenic the video suggests.

“The full beforehand of the gathering has reflective windows, truthful it made it look beauteous spectacular, but not successful a bully way,” Sharpe said, adding the occurrence section arrived rapidly and enactment retired the flames “in 20 minutes.”

The modern Mexican eatery reopened by 7:15 p.m., Sharpe said. No injuries were reported and determination was nary harm done to the wrong of the restaurant.

According to People, the fire broke retired the nighttime earlier a ribbon-cutting ceremony, which is inactive scheduled to spell up arsenic primitively planned.

Flecha Cantina has not yet remarked astir the incidental connected its social media pages, though it has since posted promotional content.

This is Flecha’s 2nd location, the archetypal of which opened successful June in Huntington Beach, Calif., astir 40 miles southbound of Los Angeles. That determination came retired of a partnership with famed integrative surgeon Dr. Paul Nassif, known for starring connected E!’s “Botched,” alongside Dr. Terry Dubrow.

Two-time Oscar nominee Wahlberg, 53, founded the Wahlburger edifice radical with brothers Donnie and Paul, the second of whom is simply a chef. The Wahlburgers concatenation operates locations astir the U.S. arsenic good arsenic successful Canada, New Zealand and Australia.