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At one point, he compared the situation to the “Blair Witch Project … Las Vegas edition,” in reference to the horror film. Later, he said it was more like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, an adventure film.
“It feels like Halloween,” he concluded as he made his way downstairs and onto the ground floor.
As the blackout continued, Metro police officers apparently blocked entrances to the hotel and parking garages, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said. That way, guests could drive away from the property in their cars.
In total, it is believed that hundreds of guests were evacuated from the hotel, the Review-Journal said. At about 9:30 pm, lights came back on, the report said. The evacuated guests cheered.
Some hotel guests apparently chose to stay in their rooms during the chaos, based on initial reports.
Shon Burton, a Phoenix, Arizona resident, told the Review-Journal he was having dinner with his family at Paris’ Tower Restaurant when the power went off at 7:15 pm. It came back on. Then it went off again at 7:30 pm.
Wait staff continued to serve drinks and a piano could be heard until power was out for good, the report said.
“All of the tables had fake candles so nobody panicked,” Burton said in a tweet to the newspaper. “We stayed in the restaurant and looked around. The Bellagio fountain kept the power on and off and we could see that all of Paris was dark.”
Bellagio Fountain Lights DarkenBurton explained in a tweet, the Bellagio Fountains were “powering up and down randomly. Has been down for the last 10 minutes. All fountain lights … out.”
The Paris power outage was officially reported to emergency officials at 8:02 pm, KLAS, a local TV station said.
By 10:30 pm, roughly an hour after the power returned, hotel guests were assembled in the valet area still waiting to get back in their rooms, the newspaper report said. Some had health or other reasons they needed to get back upstairs relatively quickly.
One guest, Chelsea Gallagher, who is from California, had left the hotel to get dinner, and when she returned the building was dark. Her dogs were waiting for her in the hotel room.
They have police telling us we can’t get to our rooms or our cars. People are sitting on the floor,” Gallagher told the Review-Journal. “I just want my dogs. An officer told me he would have someone go to my room and call me but that was over an hour ago.”
As of 10:30 pm, Gallagher said she was still outside after three hours. Some 60 other guests were nearby between Bally’s and Paris, the Review-Journal said.
“My mother-in-law is diabetic and they won’t let her get to her medication,” Gallagher further explained as to why they needed to get back upstairs.
Caesars Entertainment, which operates the property, confirmed the outage in a statement.
In total, the Clark County Fire Department sent 41 firefighters or supervisors to the Paris Thursday night.
This is not the first outage for the Paris Las Vegas. In , an outage forced the hotel-casino to evacuate its employees and guests.
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