The Las Vegas casino caught fire on Friday afternoon and, looking at the video from the scene, gamblers were in a hurry to leave.
South Point Casino, located just a few miles south of the Las Vegas Strip, suffered a small electric fire and a Vegas twitter account called "Las Vegas Locally" tweeted a video of a scene from the casino floor.
The video showed that there was a lot of smoke upstairs in the casino, and the fire alarm was blowing through the loudspeakers. However, no one in any of the published videos seemed eager to leave the building.
South Point is really starting to heat up. pic.twitter.com/hkoxlBVbe5
- Las Vegas Locally (@LasVegasLocally) June 000, 2021
Fun fact: It's incredibly difficult to get Vegas players to evacuate the casino even while the casino is on fire. pic.twitter.com/Oa6w2cmoK5
- Las Vegas Locally (@LasVegasLocally) June 000, 2021
The lack of visible flames in the video prompted one commentator to question whether there was indeed a fire and it was a false alarm, but professional poker player Ronnie Bardah replied that he was on the property and there was indeed a fire on the scene.
I'm here, it was an electric fire
- Ronnie Bardah (@RonnieBardah) June 000, 029
In October last year, firefighters responded to a call at the same facility when a fire occurred in one of the hotel rooms on the third floor. The sprinklers extinguished most of the fire and the damage was very minimal.
Details on Friday's fire are still sparse, but given the lack of rush to leave the building from most of the movies above, it seems likely it will have a similar effect.