5-Hour Power Outage Unplugs Red Rock Resort Casino Floor

• A power outage left the casino floor at Red Rock Casino Resort without power for five hours on Friday, forcing the casino to operate on emergency systems and deploy staff from sister properties
• The incident was resolved around 5 p.m., with an evening concert by Tyler Hubbard proceeding as planned
• An investigation into the root cause remains ongoing

A tripped circuit breaker unplugged most of the Red Rock Resort Casino Resort gaming floor Friday afternoon, May 29, forcing staff to manually pay out slot jackpots and pull in extra help from across Station Casinos’ other locals properties.

The outage struck Stations’ flagship property shortly after noon on Friday, May 29 and wasn’t resolved until close to 5 p.m., according to the company. Slot machines went dark, overhead lighting dimmed, and portions of the casino ran on emergency backup systems while technicians scrambled to locate the problem.

Guests quickly took to social media, posting photos and videos of rows of lifeless machines and employees verifying and hand-paying winners.

“We had all hands on deck within the building just to try to make it as seamless as possible, given the challenges we were facing with the power being out,” a Station Casinos spokesperson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Technicians spent the afternoon tracing the breaker issue, and an internal investigation into the root cause remains ongoing.

The incident is another in an increasing number of operational disruptions at a major Las Vegas casino in recent years. Power outages and technical glitches — whether from equipment failures, weather, or external factors — have become more frequent, often leaving players and staff scrambling to keep the games going.

The last casino power outage in the Las Vegas area hit the Rainbow Club Casino in Henderson, Nev., closing it from May 7-9, 2026. A damaged power box from rain storms was blamed.

Red Rock was back to normal operations in time for a scheduled Tyler Hubbard concert at the on-site Sandbar venue that evening.

Calling in employees from its other locals resorts, the operator said, is a pre-planned emergency response.