Astroworld organizers and city officials had expressed worries before the show, with Houston Police Chief Troy Finner visiting Scott before the show to warn him about the 50,000+ crowd.
, the medical plan was similarly robust — with two emergency room physicians, six registered nurses, two paramedics, and nine emergency medical technicians — but was overwhelmed before Scott even took the stage. Many patients were in need of naloxone, used to counteract the effects of opioids. More than 300 people would be in need of medical attention by the time the event was over.
Concerns were apparently so great about crowd control that Houston Police Chief Troy Finner even visited Scott before the show to warn him about the 50,000+ crowd. Fire Chief Samuel Peña also told the publication that the onus was on Scott and organizers to stop the show when things started going south; as it stands, the event ended 30 minutes sooner than anticipated, but 40 minutes after city officials had declared it a “mass casualty event.
“The one person who can really call for and get a tactical pause when something goes wrong is that performer. They have that bully pulpit and they have a responsibility,” Chief Peña said. “If somebody would have said, ‘Hey, shut this thing down and turn on the lights until this thing gets corrected’ — and that coming from the person with the mic — I think could have been very helpful.”Saturday: “I’m absolutely devastated by what took place last night.
Meanwhile, friends and families of the victims continue to search for answers. Julio Patino, brother of 21-year-old biomedical engineering student Franco Patino,on Sunday: “I just want something to change — that we don’t just forget about it and the next week, nothing happens and it continues to happen,” he says. “Everybody I’ve talked to, they said that in concerts, big like that, if you go on the front, that’s what’s going to happen. You’re going to get squished. … That’s just a norm.
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