Michigan’s Bay Mills Resort & Casino will reopen at 3 pm today (May 20) next an electrical fire. The tribal gaming locus was unsympathetic since Saturday night.

The hotel’s reservation scheme remains damaged. type A unexampled qualification system of rules was ordered.

In the meantime, the MI Upper Peninsula hotel is taking reservations the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper.

Phone lines, ATMs, gaming technology, the course credit identity card system, and surveillance cameras were repaired. The IT department worked very severe to catch the technology systems running inward 6 days, tribal leaders said.

Monumental Effort Praised

This has been a monumental exertion to receive us back open inward to a lesser extent than a week,” Whitney Gravelle, Bay Robert Mills Amerindic Community tribal chairperson, told the Bay Mills News, a local publication. “The scathe that had occurred, although limited, smasher us where it hurts.”

A scathe estimation was not straightaway available. Casino officials estimated the temporary closure will lead-in to the red of thousands of dollars, WPBN, a local TV station, said.

Gravelle thanked everyone, including customers, for their financial support and forbearance during the shuttering. “We appear forward to seeing you this weekend,” she added.

Gravelle has been the tribal chairperson after an overwhelming election triumph inward Mar 2021. The discharge and closing likely get been single of the biggest challenges in her tenure. She is a former tribal attorney for the Bay Mills Native American Community and the former chief justice of the Bay Robert Mills Tribal Court. She graduated from Chicago State University College of Law.

Safe Evacuation of Guests, Employees

On Saturday, the discharge was foremost observed at near 7 pm. It was inwards an information engineering room on the main floor. Sprinklers were activated.

The flame was for the most part extinguished past irrigate from the sprinklers, WPBN said. Firefighters presently arrived to eliminate the eternal sleep of the fire.

No I was injured from the fire. Some 250 guests or employees were all safely evacuated from the casino.

On Sabbatum night, hotel guests were allowed to stay on inward the hotel. The Back Bay Grill served drinks and food. Hotel guests who left received a replete(p) refund.

Reservations for Phoebe days from Sabbatum had to follow canceled. The guests were refunded their money.

Adjacent Wild Bluff Golf Course remained unfastened for cash-paying players. Three nearby businesses, Bay Mart Gas Station, Four Seasons Market & Deli, and Northern Light Cannabis Company, remained open, too.

The gaming attribute is located in Brimley, Mich. It is owned and operated by the Bay Mills Native American Community.