When the leadership at Boyd Gaming learned of the deadly wildfires on Maui last week, they felt a personal call to help with relief.
“This is not just an abstract thing we hear about in the news,” said David Strow, vice president of corporate communications for the company. “Many of our team members call this place (Hawaii) home or have family there, or they have longtime customers who are from there.”
That connection led the operators of the California hotel-casino, Fremont hotel-casino, Main Street Station and several other locals casinos to donate $100,000 to the American Red Cross last week to address relief efforts of the wildfires that killed more than 100 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
