EDC Stories Zero Deaths For Second Yr In A Row
EDC Stories Zero Deaths For Second Yr In A Row
The principle stream media likes to make digital dance music festivals out to be terrible occasions rife with drug overdoses, illicit intercourse, and loss of life. Protection of this type has actually decreased lately as main music festivals have grown in measurement and hurt discount efforts have turn out to be extra widespread; however, nonetheless, unlucky deaths nonetheless happen. That being mentioned, for the second yr in a row, EDC Las Vegas reported zero deaths at its annual pageant.
When EDC moved to Las Vegas in 2011, it skilled a interval of transition that concerned having to cope with the extraordinary warmth of the Vegas desert. Deaths in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017 actually marred the pageant, nevertheless it at all times bounced again.
Then, in 2018, EDC moved the pageant up a month to Could in an try to fight the warmth — and it labored. The pageant reported zero deaths in 2018. This yr, as soon as once more, EDC reported zero deaths for the second yr in a row.
Whereas this may very well be contributed so much to the cooler climate, EDC’s personal employees onsite offering medical care is among the better of any pageant on the planet. Medical personnel roam the pageant from nightfall to daybreak, and a completely stocked medical facility can be discovered on the pageant grounds, with emergency room medical doctors, nurses, EMTs and paramedics.
Historical past sadly dictates that zero deaths is one thing to be celebrated, somewhat than the norm. Nonetheless, maybe it’s starting to shift extra in that course.
Congratulations to EDC on one other profitable yr, and we sit up for returning underneath the electrical sky in 2020!