Electric Daisy Carnival Brings In Safety Experts After Festival Chaos
By WENNSunday, July 18, 2010
The organisers of the ill-fated Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles have hired safety experts to make sure their upcoming music events don’t end in chaos.
Insomniac Events bosses were heavily criticised after more than 100 dance music fans were admitted to hospital after fans scrambled to gain access to the Memorial Coliseum and Exposition Park festival, which was headlined by Moby.
Officials claimed many of the injuries occurred as crowds rushed the gates and barriers in a bid to force their way into the event, which 185,000 music fans attended last month (Jun10).
The promoters have hired Investigative Advisory Group, a consulting firm that has experience creating overall safety and security protocols for large venues, to analyze Insomniac’s current and proposed safety protocols and procedures for the company’s music festivals throughout the U.S.
A spokesman says, “These safety protocols will create new standard operating procedures adapted to the new challenges involved in music festivals, including Electric Daisy Carnival.”
The firm has also established an ‘18 and older’ policy for all its dance music festivals after a 15-year-old reveller died from a drug overdose at the Electric Daisy Carnival.
