A crowd safety expert offered a scathing review of the local government’s reaction to the Astroworld event.
“For 40 years, I’ve been involved in the debate and the creation of crowds safety on municipal levels and national level standards. I’ve never seen a response like this in which, in the end, nobody’s doing anything any different to prevent another crowd disorder,” Paul Wertheimer, the CEO of Crowd Management Strategies, said.
“What I’m told is when they put this together, the city basically threw it in the trash,” Patrick Lancton, President of the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association, said.HFD, Chief Pena Response The HFD Special Events section has established policy and a planning file we use, in conjunction with MOSE, to prepare for events that we have operational control over. The elements of the Event Action Plan, resource allocation, Incident Command Assignments, contingency planning, etc., are driven by the materials in our planning documents.
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