![]() Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hildago said at a press conference Saturday that they are calling for a thorough investigation.Ī woman lights a candle at a rail cordon close to the Bataclan theatre in the 11th district of Paris on November 14, 2015, the day after a series of attack on the city resulting in the deaths of more than 128 individuals. This was a preventable, human-made disaster.” The people killed and injured were caught in an environment that was beyond their control. Everybody who signed off on this event is in trouble: the city, the organizers, the promoters. “You could’ve had 10,000 of Houston’s finest at this festival, and if they’re not in the right position or not trained to handle this kind of situation in crowd management, it doesn’t matter,” said Wertheimer, who has run his Los Angeles-based company for nearly 30 years. While Mayor Sylvester Turner pointed out that Astroworld had more police and security than the recent World Series games, Minute Maid Park’s attendees are nearly all assigned seats. But at some point at the front of a concert, there simply isn’t more space for more people. Security typically lines a barricade between fans and performers. The worst thing you can do for crowd safety is to create an environment where people are fighting each other.” That creates dangers because you force individuals in the crowd to compete against each other for a prime location. ![]() “You cut back on rental equipment, eliminate ushers, and you sell tickets where there’s not a bad seat in the house. “You started seeing shows that were overcrowded, where the fire marshal can’t tell how many people are there,” Wertheimer said Saturday. Paul Wertheimer - founder of Crowd Management Strategies company, which offers analysis and solutions for large events - says festival seating declined after the Who incident, but grew again with the rise of rock and alternative rock festivals in the 1990s. ![]() (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) Photo: Thibault Camus, STR / Associated Press The testimony marks the first time many survivors are describing - and learning - what exactly happened that night at the Bataclan, filling in the pieces of a puzzle that is taking shape as they speak. 13, 2015 - the deadliest in modern France. For more than two weeks, dozens of survivors from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have testified?in a specially designed courtroom about the Islamic State’s attacks on Nov. 13, 2016 file photo, women hug in front of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. Eleven people were killed.Ī surge during a Pearl Jam concert at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark resulted in nine attendees trampled and killed.įILE - In this Nov. While the band performed its soundcheck, anxious fans - thinking the show had started - pushed toward the entrance. Doors to Riverfront Coliseum opened hours after concert-goers expected. Among the best-known of these events was a concert in Cincinnati by The Who in 1979. ![]() An event by a local artist designed to celebrate the city’s history went terribly awry.Ĭoncert chokepoints - the gates and the stage - have created free-for-all situations with a tragic history. Eight concert-goers were confirmed dead Saturday, with 25 hospitalized. Such a situation can be deadly, as it was Friday night outside of NRG Stadium for the first day of Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival. At a festival, the flow stops fully at the front of the stage and undergoes constant physical transformation with the push of more and more people. Unlike large gatherings for, say, a marathon, concerts don’t offer a safe, winding flow for the thousands of people bunched together.Īt a marathon, there’s a 26-mile path to dilute the river of people, whereas at a concert, there’s “crowd turbulence,” written about by Physics World’s Hamish Johnston. Photo: Jamaal Ellis/ContributorĬoncerts - particularly festival-scale concerts attended by tens of thousands of fervent fans - bear safety concerns that have made such events fraught for decades. ![]() Travis Scott performs at Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, November 5, 2021. ![]()
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