Those evacuated included some of the 520 employees of the Feather Falls Casino, Lodge & Brewing Co.ĭuring the Oroville Dam crisis, property managers had no way to communicate with staff, a large portion of which don’t have a dedicated email address for work. During historic heavy rainfall in February of 2017, the main and emergency spillways of California’s Oroville Dam experienced extensive damage, resulting in the evacuation of more than 180,000 people living downstream along the Feather River there.