surged toward the stage during a promise by travis scott. audience members had nowhere to go. the video shows the moment the performer pauses and looks out in confusion as an ambulance moves into the densely packed crowd of about 50,000 people. last hour, i spoke to a woman who was in that crowd. she s also an icu nurse. she actually passed out an was apparently crowd surfed to safety. listen to what she told me. right before i passed out, i tried to turn my head to tell my boyfriend, i couldn t turn my head, but i really was going to have him tell my son that i loved him because i didn t know if i was going to make it out of there. not trying to be dramatic. i thought i was going to die. never seen anything like it. never thought i was going to die. it was absurd. there was so little resources. i mean, the medics that were trying to help didn t look like a lot of them had been properly trained. not to take away from what they were doing. they were trying their best. they w
venue. we, the planning included two separate stages to try to subdivide those crowds. but again, it s the, it was a crowd control at the point of the stage that was the issue. that caused the issue. especially as the crowd started to surge up towards the stage. that s what we re going to be keying on in regards to the investigation. yes, ma am. hold on. yes, ma am. this is in regards to ems and also the kind of ems to administer right then and there onsite. were additional ambulances needed to come in then i just want to we also saw struggling to get to the crowd. was it hard trying to help get to the let me answer your first question first. all our units are completely equipped with all the life safety and life saving equipment. they have defibrillators. even the first response vehicles. so from our perspective, from the houston fire department s perspective, we had the right equipment. the, i can t speak about the equipment that the third party medical componen
We can t release all the information. you said 200,000. can you repeat your question, please? again, there is no outdoor venue capacity. what we did is applied the internal assembly fire code and did the calculation based on that. it s very conservative. the capacity based on the footprint that was going to be used, they could have had over 200,000. no, no, what i m saying is that s based on the math, based on the assembly fire code calculation, they could have theoretically had over 200,000 people, but it was limited to 50,000 and we verified that based on or we tried to get assurance of that based on the number of ticket sales they had. so again, it was a wide open