Astroworld emergency operational plan lacked surge protocol

HOUSTON — Emergency plans for the Astroworld euphony festival successful Houston did not see protocols for unsafe assemblage surges, adjacent though that's what authorities judge happened Friday nighttime erstwhile 8 radical died arsenic rapper Travis Scott performed.

Hundreds of others were injured, including a 9-year-old lad whose household said was inactive successful a coma connected Tuesday. Attendees described scenes of panic successful the assemblage arsenic fans pressed guardant erstwhile Scott took to the stage.

The performance country remains mostly successful spot arsenic authorities proceed a transgression investigation.

The Associated Press reports that a 56-page information program for the festival included protocols for progressive shooters, weaponry threats and terrible weather. However, the program did not see protocols for a imaginable assemblage surge.

Houston's constabulary and occurrence departments played a cardinal relation successful keeping the 50,000 attendees harmless astatine the concert. However, the national caput of the Houston Fire Department pushed backmost Tuesday, saying firefighters did not person a beingness wrong the festival and were not fixed radios to pass straight with organizers, adjacent though they had asked for them.

"We don't usage cellphones for emergencies. We usage radios. We request nonstop interaction due to the fact that arsenic situations unfold, seconds matter," Marty Lancton said.

More than 20 lawsuits person already been filed, accusing organizers of failing to instrumentality elemental crowd-control steps oregon unit properly.

Houston's constabulary and occurrence departments person already vowed to behaviour their ain probe into the tragedy. However, the apical elected authoritative successful Harris County has called for an independent review of the calamity successful the hopes of removing immoderate imaginable conflicts of interest.