Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Life of the Party
NFPA Journal: IN THE WEE HOURS of Sunday, May 29, Nancy Bermudez received a horrifying call from a social worker at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Katie, Bermudez’s 21-year-old daughter, was in the hospital and the outlook was dire. When Bermudez arrived, according to the Tampa Bay Times, she found her daughter unconscious and clinging to life with help from tubes and machines. “Katie, you have to fight,” Bermudez whispered to her. The next day Katie was dead.
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This article so clearly highlights the importance of management of all types of events ranging anywhere from the examples laid out here of different music festivals both across the country and internationally to the things that we have been learning so much about in our stage management, production management, and technical direction classes about managing different aspects of theatrical productions. Without management of any type of crowd huge accidents, even tragedies, are quite likely to occur. In the case of enormous crowds in places like electric dance music festivals, medical management and care is especially important. As the article highlights, the over use of drugs and alcohol mixed with heat, exhaustion, dehydration, etc. is in no way helpful or safe in these environments, but the real answer lies not necessarily in prevention of drugs and alcohol, etc., but instead in the care that you can bring to people when accidents do occur. Like we have talked about in many of our theatre management classes, when, for example, a fire occurs during a show, it is most important to keep the audience calm during the evacuation because most deaths from theatre fires have not occurred because of the fires themselves, but instead in incidents of trampling when trying to evacuate. Good management and care from professionals prevents or helps to prevent future incidents like these in any event environment.
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