professionals, first responders who have been part of a swift response, thank you to them. and to all the good samaritans, because we know that it could have been much worse the so many people hadn t stepped in. the events of last night were tragic beyond belief. this is an artist that we know has a following amongst young people in particular, young people with bright futures. those were the people that were at the event, went to have a good time, and no one, no parent, no friend, no sibling should see their loved one off to a concert by a world-renowned artist and not be able to expect them to come home safely. and when we read these ages 14, 16, 21, 21, 23, 23, 27 just breaks your heart. and i know that the images we ve
what happened last night, one fan described it as a concert from hell. this was roughly around 50,000 people that were here for this music event. and what witnesses say things had been a bit rough all throughout the day. it got really bad around 9:00 when travis scott took the stage. the the crowd started pushing forward towards the stage, packing people in so tight that they couldn t move and many couldn t breathe. when folks started passing out, some got crushed by the crowd, and others were only able to get out by having their lifeless bodies essentially crowd surfed to the side with the few emts that were there to help. an icu nurse immediately started helping others when she regained consciousness. she describes the scene as having been absolutely insane. nothing could have prepared me for what i saw, nothing. i mean, i work in the icu, i see people die every week.
terminated, that event, that whole footprint was cleared out within the hour. 50,000. so the means of egress, okay, the exits, the doors were kept open, unobstructed. that was our assurance. what we re looking into is what caused the crowd surge, what led to the crowd surge and those incidents at the the point of the, of the where the concert was at, the stage. so, again, our role in this is to participate with the police department. we are going to be looking at films and the video as the chief mentioned, and we re going to insure that the items that should have been in place were in place and that we learn from this event. really quick, mayor, the permits that were issued for this for lpg, and we had inspectors to monitor that. we had permits for the pyro, for the pyrotechnics. inspectors were on scene for that. we had a permit for tents that were erected in the venue. we had inspectors for that.
of it, and they talked about all the plans that were in place including personnel, additional personnel situated around the perimeter the of the concert as a contingency plan and a backup in case something like this happened, which is why chief peña was able to say that the response was so quick. chief finner adding that they had 528 houston police officers there. livenation, the producer of this concert, they had 755 additional private security personnel on hand. so still, as chief peña said, they want to know how this happened. again, mayor turner getting ott bottom of this bottom of this. chief finner no one on the city side or the county side, hearst county, looking to pass the buck. they re looking to get answers, they are all very saddened by
press conference all around beginning with the houston mayor, sylvester turner. and then we heard from the judge there now speaking and moving on to fire chief, before that police chief troy finner and then fire chief daniel peña. all of them making sure to say that they had plans in place, they are determined to get to the bottom of what happened to learn of any missteps, and most importantly, they are offering condolences to the families. in fact, the chief, police chief finner saying as much as it hurts them, you know, no parent should ever have to send a child off to a concert for them not to return. so they re asking while they are looking into the logistics and what went wrong, they re asking everyone to keep those families in their prayers. again, it was just really impressive. hay seem to be very, very on top