Overview
- Organizers reported more than 30,000 attendees on opening day Thursday, which produced 110 medical incidents tied to heat and humidity.
- Event medics treated 85 people at an on-site cooling center, cared for 27 in the emergency medical center with 21 released, and transported four to hospitals.
- Officials deployed hydration stations, shade, free sunscreen, air-conditioned spaces and five misting stations and lowered mist nozzles after Day 1 to improve coverage.
- HPD and Houston Fire EMS will clear the grounds if lightning is detected within an eight-mile radius and will only reopen gates after 30 minutes without additional strikes.
- Forecasts show triple-digit heat-index values followed by tropical moisture that could bring storms, lightning and 1–3 inches of rain from Sunday into early next week which may force short pauses and raise operational and public-safety costs.