In a strange deja vu moment, a second casino rooftop fire occurred earlier today in Connecticut at the Great Cedars hotel of Foxwoods, the largest casino in the world. Three floors were evacuated and no one was hurt.

Like Monte Carlo, they do not yet know what caused the hour-long fire.

Workers at Monte Carlo are busily getting the casino back into shape, and all employees will be paid their full wages in the process.

Although Clark County inspectors have given the casino and hotel a safety thumbs-up, it will remain closed because of the possibility of falling exterior debris.

No word on how soon the casino can reopen, but their website prevented any online reservations through mid-February, and currently the reservations system is down.

Hats off to the fire department for containing the fire as fast and as efficiently as it did. And to the 6,000 guests and employees who evacuated in an orderly manner. It proved lessons were learned from the MGM fire of 1980, which caused safety standards to improve across all new casinos and to retrofit into old buildings.