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Paris Las Vegas Power Restored After Outage, Evacuations

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Caesars Entertainment says the power has been restored at Paris Las Vegas after an outage forced hundreds of guests at the Strip hotel to evacuate.

The Las Vegas police department and firefighters responded to the outage Thursday around 7 p.m. and began evacuating the hotel around 8:45 p.m.

Fire crews rescued several guests from six elevators. No one was injured. Authorities say the lights flicked back on around 9:30 p.m.

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The Las Vegas Sun reported that Caesars Entertainment doesn't contract with NV Energy, which wasn't reporting outages Thursday night. It wasn't immediately clear how widespread the outage was.