Station Casinos brought successful employees from its different properties to assistance its unit astatine Red Rock Resort erstwhile a powerfulness outage darkened the casino for 4 to 5 hours Friday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the institution precocious Friday said a circuit breaker was tripped resulting successful a powerfulness outage to the 20-year-old, 796-room Summerlin casino property.
Gamblers connected the country said connected societal media that casino unit were hand-paying winnings to players.
Officials are investigating the origin of the outage that began astatine astir noon and lasted until astir 5 p.m.
A typical of the institution said nary 1 was wounded successful the incident, but the outage resulted successful slot machines going acheronian and payments were made manually.
“We had each hands connected platform wrong the gathering conscionable to effort to marque it arsenic seamless arsenic possible, fixed the challenges we were facing with the powerfulness being out,” the Station spokesperson said.
To assistance during the blackout, employees from different Station Casino properties were brought to Red Rock to help.
The spokesperson said the performance featuring American singer-songwriter Tyler Hubbard Friday nighttime astatine The Sandbar volition beryllium performed arsenic scheduled.
“We person a performance contiguous truthful we don’t expect immoderate issues with the show,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said Station employees are trained to grip exigency situations and were prepared for the incident.
Having a strategy successful spot to telephone successful employees from different properties eased the perchance stressful situation.
“That’s the payment of having the firm web and each the squad members are each consenting to dive in.”
Contact Richard N. Velotta astatine rvelotta@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta connected X.
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