Austin-Travis County EMS 2023 Annual Report

Special Events

200,000+ additional people surge Austin during the larger events

From music festivals and racing to sports and parades, we're there.

Trackside at COTA

SPECIAL EVENTS ALLOW OUR MEDICS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THEIR SKILLS TO A GLOBAL STAGE.

The goal of the Austin-Travis County EMS Special Events Division is to provide the highest standard of medical care to the participants and workers at large mass gatherings, outdoor events, and celebrations. We manage these events without degrading our quality of service and successfully minimizing the impact on our 9-1-1 resources keeping them available for our community. ATCEMS Special Events provides medical coverage for Austin City Limits Music Festival, SXSW film and music festival, Formula 1 racing, Moto GP racing, NASCAR racing, UT Football, Austin FC soccer, and a variety of community festivals and parades. All of the event coverage relies on volunteers from Field Medics to not interfere with 9-1-1 system resources. At these events, depending on the size and complexity, we deploy Command

structure, Motorcycle Medics, Special Response Units, Logistics support, Foot Teams, and Ambulances.

15,862+ Total for spec

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We staffed over 200 unique events, and when broken out per event day, ATCEMS worked over 400 event days. This illustrates the number of times we staff multiple events in a single day, some of those are three and four events in one day. Not including Formula 1, NASCAR, and MotoGP, we staffed over 200 separate track rental days. From all of these events, we ran over 1,000 medical incidents from dedicated ATCEMS resources, keeping those 9-1-1 resources in the community.

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