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8 dead after panic at Houston Astroworld music festival
NBC ^ | Nov. 6, 2021, 3:00 AM EDT | Phil Helsel

Posted on 11/06/2021 1:52:21 AM PDT by conservative98

At least eight people are dead after a crowd surge during the sold-out Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, the city's fire chief said.

Seventeen people were transported to the hospital after the crush, and 11 who were taken by ambulance were in cardiac arrest, Houston officials said. In all, more than 300 people were treated throughout the event Friday at an on-site field hospital.

Around 9:15 p.m. local time (10:15 p.m. ET) "the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage," Fire Chief Samuel Peña said at a news conference early Saturday.

"That caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries, people began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic," the fire chief said.

Houston police Executive Assistant Chief Lt. Larry Satterwhite, who was near the front, said the situation developed quickly.

"It seems like it happened with just over the course of a few minutes —suddenly we had several people down on the ground experiencing some type of cardiac arrest or some type of medical episode," he said. "We immediately started doing CPR."

About 50,000 people were at the event at NRG Park, which was being put on by rapper and producer Travis Scott and kicked off Friday. The festival, which is in its third year, was expected to be a two-day event, but officials said that Saturday's lineup had been canceled.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: astroworld; blm; cardiacarrest; houston; injection; isolatedincidebts; isolatedincidents; jab; livenation; musicfestival; needle; nrgpark; rap; recovery; scott; scrolldown; stampede; texas; travisscott
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1 posted on 11/06/2021 1:52:21 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

December 20, 2018: Travis Scott On Kanye's MAGA Era: "You Got Kids Looking Up To You, Feel Me?"

#trumpcurse

2 posted on 11/06/2021 1:52:41 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Sounds like a third world event.


3 posted on 11/06/2021 1:57:25 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: conservative98

Sludge report? still giving clicks?


4 posted on 11/06/2021 1:58:12 AM PDT by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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To: conservative98
Looks like something created from Hell itself


5 posted on 11/06/2021 1:59:06 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: b4me

You’re giving CNN and Youtube clicks which is worse.


6 posted on 11/06/2021 1:59:45 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: csvset

Big anti-Trump guy.

Trump supporters don’t act like these lemmings. Mindless consumers of media hype.


7 posted on 11/06/2021 2:04:40 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: csvset

Modern Day “Woodstock”.....only from the really dark side.


8 posted on 11/06/2021 2:04:49 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: conservative98

Hey, at least no one was shot. Sure, eight still died but no shootings is a step forward for rap concerts.


9 posted on 11/06/2021 2:05:44 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Fido969

About 50,000 people were at the event at NRG Park spreading the likes of whatever.


10 posted on 11/06/2021 2:06:49 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: conservative98

they at least write some thing -

You not only click and spend time on sludge sight but also click on sludge headline links to cnn youtube etc = twicethe clicks to anti american sights= twice as bad.


11 posted on 11/06/2021 2:06:55 AM PDT by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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To: conservative98

Eleven people out of a group do not suddenly have heart attacks. I don’t care if it is a large group. Did the heart attacks occur first, and then the panic, or vice versa?


12 posted on 11/06/2021 2:07:05 AM PDT by CFW
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To: conservative98

Cardiac arrest from a crowd crush? Never heard of that during the mosh pit era. I could be totally wrong because the mash pit era was not a 24/7 news era.


13 posted on 11/06/2021 2:10:23 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: momincombatboots

no masks


14 posted on 11/06/2021 2:22:41 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: CFW

From 1974, David Cassidy concert in which a young girl died in a crash:

“Even more cruelly, it was suggested that Bernadette was suffering from a congenital heart defect and could have died anywhere. The fact that her heart decided to give out when she was lying on the floor, crushed beneath several hundred other girls, was pure coincidence.”

https://www.goldminemag.com/columns/death-teenybopper


15 posted on 11/06/2021 4:06:01 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: CFW

They are probably all taking drugs which can affect the heart...like coke and amphetamine derivatives.
Don’t drug up and get into crowd compression panic. Your body may not be able to handle the physical stress.


16 posted on 11/06/2021 4:07:01 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: PghBaldy

crush, not crash.


17 posted on 11/06/2021 4:07:11 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: conservative98

Aspiring rappers


18 posted on 11/06/2021 4:10:07 AM PDT by xp38
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To: csvset
"Sounds like a third world event."

In nearly every sense of the word, it was...

19 posted on 11/06/2021 4:19:31 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: csvset
"Sounds like a third world event."

In nearly every sense of the word, it was...

20 posted on 11/06/2021 4:19:43 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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