Few Incidents For Electric Daisy

No news was good news for the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, which wrapped its inaugural three-day festival without much of the controversy the event has drawn elsewhere.

EDC’s Sin City debut turned the Las Vegas Motor Speedway into a neon playland of sorts with amusement rides, multiple stages and fire-shooting art installations June 24-26. Safety at the event was also apparently well planned with 80 health care professionals, 14 ambulances and more than 1,000 security guards on staff.

The fest reportedly drew more than 75,000 people on opening night and more than 80,000 on nights two and three to see artists including Tiesto, David Guetta, Bassnectar, Skrillex and Swedish House Mafia.

EDC wasn’t entirely without incident, however.

More than 25 concertgoers were arrested on drug charges, according to police reports obtained by the Las Vegas Review Journal. At least 17 concertgoers were hospitalized over the weekend and hundreds more were treated and released by on-site medical staff.
Still, none of the incidents at the festival were enough to raise red flags for Vegas officials.

Police spokesman Bill Cassell told the Review Journal extensive planning helped the department prepare for any situation that could have arisen over the weekend.

“I believe that, in part, our planning paid off,” he said. “ From a law enforcement standpoint, this was a success.”

In other Electric Daisy news, authorities in Texas have linked a second death to the June 18 EDC event in Dallas. Police said a man who attended the festival and was suspected of taking drugs exited a friend’s vehicle on the ride home and was struck by a tractor-trailer on the U.S. 75 freeway. Another concertgoer died of a suspected drug overdose at a local hospital.