Safety standards exist, but they're not required nationwide Courtesy of Twitter /via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. “We were presented with an impossible situation,” he said.Īn ambulance is seen in the crowd during the Astroworld music festiwal in Houston, Texas, U.S., Novemin this still image obtained from a social media video on November 6, 2021. Richardson said his radio calls for backup didn’t seem to be going through, which he believes was because of how loud the concert was. Richardson described how people grabbed him for help as he moved through the crowd, but he “had to tell all of them, ‘I will try to come back for you, but people are literally dead right now that I need to go and help.’” Richardson said he left her with another medic to get his crash bag and as he made his way back, he saw other two medics doing CPR on two more people. She had no pulse and wasn’t breathing when he arrived, he said. Richardson discussed how shocked he was when a concertgoer told him that no one had helped a girl who was lying on the ground for 10 minutes. Richardson said in the videos that he would not name the company that contracted him, nor any of the other medics. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images) Jason Koerner/Getty ImagesĪfter Astroworld, music festivals face new scrutiny over crowd safety MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA - JULY 25: General view of the Ciroc stage during day 3 of Rolling Loud Miami 2021 at Hard Rock Stadium on Jin Miami Gardens, Florida. Over three different videos, Richardson explained how he and three other medics waded through a sea of bodies shoulder to shoulder to provide life-saving help.
“Being in this crowd is literally a life-threat,” Richardson said in the videos that were posted online last week.
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Remington Richardson, an emergency medical technician contracted by ParaDocs, recounted the desperate attempt to save lives that night in a series of TikTok posts. ‘We were presented with an impossible situation’ Pollak said ParaDocs does not own any ambulances, but five to seven ambulances were contracted to serve Astroworld. They are typically brought in so that local first responders can continue to focus on regular 911 calls in their community. ParaDocs specializes in providing medical care at large events, Pollak said, adding that his team has a lot of experience in concert production lingo and logistics. ParaDocs had staff and resources in anticipation of 70,000 people, when the actual concert attendance was estimated around 50,000. Pollak said the standard ratio at these types of events is one medic per thousand people. He said he can’t speculate on what could have been done to prevent the situation. He said he believes the concert should have been stopped sooner, but that stopping the concert abruptly in that moment might have caused riots and worsened the situation.
Pollak said Paradocs did not have the ability to call a stop to the concert. A total of 10 people have died as a result of the chaotic concert. The drop in communication was just one of many things that went wrong that Friday night when concertgoers were crushed, trampled and struggled to breathe as the packed crowd surged toward an outdoor stage when rapper and headliner Travis Scott started performing. Pollak, who was working the concert, said ParaDocs staff did use radios provided by the event organizers.
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“Marty” Lancton, president of the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association. Houston firefighters union complains about communications with private medics at Astroworld concertĭays earlier, Houston officials said firefighters were not in contact with ParaDocs staff, and when firefighters did ask for radio communications they were instead given cell phone numbers, according to Patrick M. (Photo by Thomas Shea / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS SHEA/AFP via Getty Images) Thomas Shea/AFP/Getty Images Authorities in Texas opened a criminal investigation Saturday into a tragedy in which the crowd at a huge Travis Scott rap concert surged toward the stage in a crush that killed eight people and sent dozens to the hospital.Around 50,000 people were in the audience at Houston's NRG Park Friday night when the crowd started pushing toward the stage as Scott was performing, triggering chaotic scenes. Washington signs a remembrance board at a makeshift memorial on Novemat the NRG Park grounds where eight people died in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas.
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