In an interview with Rolling Stone, a woman who stated she is an ICU nurse attempted to put into words the chaos she witnessed at the Travis Scott Astroworld concert in Houston that left eight dead and hundreds injured due to overcrowding.
According to Rolling Stone's EJ Dickson and Daniel Kreps, the concert had to be abruptly stopped when fans pressed forward toward the stage and the crush forced some attendees to the ground where they were trampled despite pleas to the stage to stop the show and send help.
"Following the incident, accounts and video flooded onto social media about what people experienced during the stampede-like atmosphere, as well as the futile attempts to stop the concert in order to allow the injured people — trapped within the mass of people — receive the help they required," they wrote after interviewing nurse Madeline Eskins -- who was in attendance -- on Saturday morning about what she saw."
"It was definitely overcrowded. It was insane, honestly. I knew it was just way too crowded – it just got worse and worse as i got closer to Travis Scott performing it got more crowded, more crowded, more crowded," she recalled.
She then explained, "Fans were recording the concert and people doing CPR. Fans were yelling at the stage crew around us, saying stop the concert, people are dying. No one listened."
According to Eskins, she was trapped in the surge and was forced to scramble just in an effort to breathe.
"I looked at my boyfriend and I was about to tell my boyfriend to tell my son I loved him because I did not think I would make it out of there. And I fainted. I tried to jump up as much as I could to get air. I couldn't breathe. I just felt it. I knew it was coming," she stated.
The report notes that she was unconscious as she was "crowd-surfed" to the VIP area where concert security employees assisted her.
Eskins also wrote about her experience on Instagram which can be seen below, as well as coverage of the concert chaos from Sky News.
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