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From Houston's ABC affiliate:

Eight people died Friday night and hundreds of others were injured during the opening night of a popular weekend music festival at NRG Park, authorities said.

It happened at the third-annual Astroworld Festival, a sold-out concert event featuring multiple acts [including Drake and Travis Scott, one of the Festival organizers]. https://abc13.com/astroworld-festival-canceled-deaths-fatal-texas-concert/11203827/

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Stampede at Astroworld fest entry unfolds in front of ABC13 crew

Attendees waiting to get into the event overtook security and jumped over barricades and each other as the crowd pushed its way into the music festival.
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www.cnn.com

November 6 news on Travis Scott's Astroworld festival deaths

At least eight people are dead and many others were injured after a crowd surged forward as rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston Friday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

At least 23 people were taken to the hospital, 11 of them in cardiac arrest. There was a stampede through the gates before the stage was rushed. One of those dead was only 10 years-old. Terrible tragedy.
 
nota bene said:
From Houston's ABC affiliate:

Eight people died Friday night and hundreds of others were injured during the opening night of a popular weekend music festival at NRG Park, authorities said.

It happened at the third-annual Astroworld Festival, a sold-out concert event featuring multiple acts [including Drake and Travis Scott, one of the Festival organizers]. https://abc13.com/astroworld-festival-canceled-deaths-fatal-texas-concert/11203827/

abc13.com

Stampede at Astroworld fest entry unfolds in front of ABC13 crew

Attendees waiting to get into the event overtook security and jumped over barricades and each other as the crowd pushed its way into the music festival.
abc13.com abc13.com
www.cnn.com

November 6 news on Travis Scott's Astroworld festival deaths

At least eight people are dead and many others were injured after a crowd surged forward as rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston Friday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

At least 23 people were taken to the hospital, 11 of them in cardiac arrest. There was a stampede through the gates before the stage was rushed. One of those dead was only 10 years-old. Terrible tragedy.
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:( It seems we never learn.

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Top 10 Concert Tragedies and Mishaps Concerts are live performances of artists and bands. They are part and parcel of the entire entity of music itself, much more with classic rock. It is a place for fans to experience the raw passion of live music. It can also be an opportunity for danger and...
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From the NY Post:

Medical crews at Houston’s NRG park were poorly trained and ill-equipped to treat people at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival, where at least eight people were killed and nearly two dozen injured in a stampede Friday night, concertgoers said.

...Madeline Eskins, who was at the concert and confirmed to the Post that she’s an ICU nurse in Humble, Texas, posted on Instagram that she initially passed out during the crush near the stage. She said her unconscious body was apparently “crowdsurfed” out of the packed crowd and when she woke up, “I had a water bottle in my lap and had no clue what happened.”

...A security guard asked her to help and she found no emergency equipment, such as Ambu bags used to resuscitate people who can’t breathe or defibrillators used to shock hearts.

“Some of these medical staff had little to no experience with CPR, didn’t know how to check a pulse, carotid or femoral,” Eskins wrote in her post. https://nypost.com/2021/11/06/astro...lmed-by-incident-that-left-8-dead-at-concert/
 
Overitall said:
:( It seems we never learn.

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My first question is how to keep people from rushing the gate and stampeding in.
 
nota bene said:
My first question is how to keep people from rushing the gate and stampeding in.
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That's the million dollar question. Crowd control should be a priority at these events. It could be that management is simply not thinking that something like this could happen. History says it can.
 
Overitall said:
That's the million dollar question. Crowd control should be a priority at these events. It could be that management is simply not thinking that something like this could happen. History says it can.
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I heard on TV that this isn't the first time there has been a stampede at a Travis Scott concert. Maybe somebody knows more about this?
 
From latest news>>>.

  • Crowd surge: At least eight people are dead and many others were injured after a crowd surged forward as rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the festival on Friday night, officials said. The event's live stream showed Scott pause his performance to look on in confusion as an ambulance with lights flashing pulled into the venue.
  • "Scores" injured: "We had scores of individuals that were injured," Houston Fire Chief Sam Peña during a news conference early Saturday morning. About 50,000 people were at the sold-out outdoor music festival at NRG Park — the stadium complex where the Astrodome and the NRG Stadium stand — when the incident happened just after 9 p.m. CT, officials said. "The crowd for whatever reason began to push and surge towards the front of the stage, which caused the people in the front to be compressed — they were unable to escape that situation," Peña told CNN Saturday morning.
Man O man....Words fail me and I'm sure also others.
 
nota bene said:
I heard on TV that this isn't the first time there has been a stampede at a Travis Scott concert. Maybe somebody knows more about this?
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Idk. If it’s happened before I would think this would give great hesitation of ever doing another concert. At the very least he should insist on better preparation and demand to see details of how they (management) will control crowds.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
The concept of ‘festival seating’ has been proven, once again, to be largely unmanageable.
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I thought that was outlawed?

Stampedes kills people. For the massive numbers of Muslims filling the requirement to visit Mecca at least once in a lifetime - to go look at a meteorite - with 1.6 billion Muslims, there have been horrific stampedes. In one, over 2000 people were trampled to death. I'd think it'd take a lot to trample an adult to death. I wonder how many deaths are from being crushed versus unable to breathe?
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2015 Mina stampede - Wikipedia

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Cue the lawyers.
 
nota bene said:
From Houston's ABC affiliate:

Eight people died Friday night and hundreds of others were injured during the opening night of a popular weekend music festival at NRG Park, authorities said.

It happened at the third-annual Astroworld Festival, a sold-out concert event featuring multiple acts [including Drake and Travis Scott, one of the Festival organizers]. https://abc13.com/astroworld-festival-canceled-deaths-fatal-texas-concert/11203827/

abc13.com

Stampede at Astroworld fest entry unfolds in front of ABC13 crew

Attendees waiting to get into the event overtook security and jumped over barricades and each other as the crowd pushed its way into the music festival.
abc13.com abc13.com
www.cnn.com

November 6 news on Travis Scott's Astroworld festival deaths

At least eight people are dead and many others were injured after a crowd surged forward as rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston Friday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

At least 23 people were taken to the hospital, 11 of them in cardiac arrest. There was a stampede through the gates before the stage was rushed. One of those dead was only 10 years-old. Terrible tragedy.
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I went to see Simon and Garfunkel during their reunion tour at Sullivan stadium in Foxboro, Mass. We had general admission on the field tickets and we got there hours early so we could be first in to be near the stage. When the gates opened, it was a crush. I was literally being moved forward with my feet not touching the ground. And that was us mellow Simon and Garfunkel fans, for heavens sake.

I can certainly see how this happened. People rushing the stage as soon as the lights go down is common, even with actual seating tickets. When I saw Roger Waters in Hartford, also in the 80's, we had pretty good seats, and as soon as the lights went down, a mass of people behind us started climbing over and around us on the arm rests to get down to the floor. It was insane.
 
That's awful.
 
I do not know this Travis Scott.
Maybe he is so pleased by such events that prove his popularity that he does nothing aganst it?
 
nota bene said:
From Houston's ABC affiliate:

Eight people died Friday night and hundreds of others were injured during the opening night of a popular weekend music festival at NRG Park, authorities said.

It happened at the third-annual Astroworld Festival, a sold-out concert event featuring multiple acts [including Drake and Travis Scott, one of the Festival organizers]. https://abc13.com/astroworld-festival-canceled-deaths-fatal-texas-concert/11203827/

abc13.com

Stampede at Astroworld fest entry unfolds in front of ABC13 crew

Attendees waiting to get into the event overtook security and jumped over barricades and each other as the crowd pushed its way into the music festival.
abc13.com abc13.com
www.cnn.com

November 6 news on Travis Scott's Astroworld festival deaths

At least eight people are dead and many others were injured after a crowd surged forward as rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston Friday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

At least 23 people were taken to the hospital, 11 of them in cardiac arrest. There was a stampede through the gates before the stage was rushed. One of those dead was only 10 years-old. Terrible tragedy.
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At least 8 dead and many injured after crowd surge at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival in Houston, officials say

I've been on the main floor at a concert during one of these "surges." They are not fun when you are standing up-front. Thankfully, my situation was not nearly as dire as this. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/06/us/houston-astroworld-festival/index.html
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nota bene said:
At least 23 people were taken to the hospital, 11 of them in cardiac arrest. There was a stampede through the gates before the stage was rushed. One of those dead was only 10 years-old. Terrible tragedy.
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This is breaking political news? Whats the debate here?
 
Rumpel said:
So it looks like.
No brains?
No idea of responsibility for other persons?
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Folks felt entitled to push others in order to get closer to the stage. Those pressed against barriers (to protect the stage?) had nowhere to go or the strength to resist (the thousands of?) people pushing against them. By the time the performer(s) on stage became aware of the problem, it was too late to save many of those unable to breathe.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Folks felt entitled to push others in order to get closer to the stage. Those pressed against barriers (to protect the stage?) had nowhere to go or the strength to resist (the thousands of?) people pushing against them. By the time the performer(s) on stage became aware of the problem, it was too late to save many of those unable to breathe.
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Terrible!
And now?
It seems nobody is guilty or responsible?
Tomorrow same precedure as before?
 
Rumpel said:
Terrible!
And now?
It seems nobody is guilty or responsible?
Tomorrow same precedure as before?
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How, exactly, are we to find out who was doing the pushing in that crowd of over 50K people? I don’t see solution to stopping a mob of entitled morons from doing what these morons did, other than to prevent such mobs from forming. Adding more (rings of?) barriers would likely make no difference and perhaps supply more hard surfaces to have people pushed against.
 
Another left-wing liberal tragedy. I'm not surprised nobody was trained to deal with it.

Where were the social workers to reason with people?
 
nota bene said:
I heard on TV that this isn't the first time there has been a stampede at a Travis Scott concert. Maybe somebody knows more about this?
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Back in the day, it was the WHO whose crowds got really rowdy. I got hit in the head with a flying beer bottle at SPAC when I went to see them. At one of their concerts in Cinncinnatti, eleven people died in a crowd surge.
 
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