Astroworld festival tragedy: Houston creates task force to review event safety

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A new task force will look into how to improve the safety at large Houston-area events in the hopes of avoiding another tragedy like last year's deadly Astroworld music festival, officials said Wednesday.

The task force will review possible safety upgrades, look at ways of improving communication between different agencies and departments and make recommendations "to ensure consistent operational standards for future events," Mayor Sylvester Turner said.

A massive crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival led to the deaths of 10 concertgoers. ( Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File) Questions have been raised about a possible lack of coordination between officials who work for the city of Houston and surrounding Harris County, and festival promoter Live Nation over several issues before the Nov.

5 concert. Among the questions were whether there was sufficient security and medical personnel and whether there was sufficient coordinated planning for responding to emergency situations like the massive crowd surge that led to 10 deaths. "We know that the city and county can do better," Turner said.