Chris Brown-Usher stadium shows lead to ‘record calls’ for heat illness, Medic says
A bus was needed around Bank of America Stadium to handle the dozens of people suffering from heat-related illnesses at two Chris Brown-Usher concerts, according to first responders.
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Forty people took ill at the Friday night show and a preliminary number of 30 patients was released for the Saturday night concert. That number doesn’t include patients inside the stadium, officials said.
Medic ambulance service reports it received “record calls” Friday evening for its Mass Casualty Incident bus around the stadium.
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The most common forms of heat-related illnesses are cramps, heat exhaustion and heart stroke, with the latter being potentially fatal, the National Weather Service says. Symptoms of heat sickness include spasms, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headaches and fainting.
The two R&B singers staged two nights of outdoor concerts at the stadium starting 7:30 p.m. Temperatures reached the upper 90s both days, and the heat index was 105 degrees. The heat index is how hot it actually feels to the human body when humidity is taken into account, forecasters say.
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