After Astroworld, music festivals face new scrutiny over crowd safety

About 50,000 people are expected to attend Day N Vegas — roughly the same number of people as Scott’s event in Houston.

“We’ve had meetings about this.

“The Orlando Police and Fire Departments monitors trends on a continual basis and adjustments are made as needed.

But he assured festival attendees that the city will have plenty of resources at this weekend’s festival, plus contigency plans with other jurisdictions in case they need more.

In Daytona Beach, the Volusia Sheriff’s Office said it’s working with local, state and federal partners to provide security for Welcome to Rockville, a four-day rock festival headlined by Metallica.

“In addition to planning meetings that have already been happening, we have a detailed operations plan in place for this event,” said Andrew Gant, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office.

“This incident is a recurrence of past incidents,” he said, citing other events where concertgoers died.

“We always take care of the folks in our midst and sort of never feel threatened by these sorts of things,” he said.

Live Nation Entertainment, the concert promoter that organized the Astroworld Festival, has been cited about a dozen times for numerous safety issues, records show.

“We never have had that law enforcement person on stage .

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