Austin-Travis County EMS 2024 Annual Report

KEEPING YOU SAFE WHILE YOU ARE ENTERTAINED

420k+ Formula One attracts over 420k people to the city Patrons flock to COTA to enjoy world class racing and A-list talent concerts on the COTA Super Stage Friday and Saturday nights. Not only does ATCEMS cover the venue for spectators, but we have dedicated Track Medics for the race cars and pit lane area. This specialized resource is trained to work in and around highly technical machines that travel at high speeds.

SPECIAL EVENTS 228 UNIQUE EVENTS WORKED FOR A TOTAL OF 18,853 HOURS DURING FY24 FROM RACES TO RODEOS, WE KNOW HOW TO MEET YOU WHERE YOU GO

SXSW

Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Austin for a mix of conferences, festivals, and exhibitions with a significant, positive economic impact on our city. EMS sets up resources and geo-fences the downtown area to handle all medical emergencies within the designated geographic boundary, keeping everyday resources available for normal city call volume.

ATCEMS Special Events have proven to be an invaluable division within our department. The City of Austin has some of the largest mass gatherings in the country and requires many extra resources to appropriately provide quality medical services to its attendees and staff. We support SXSW, Austin FC, Formula One Car Racing, ACL Festival, Austin Marathon, Capital 10K, UT Football, NASCAR, and MotoGP, just to name a few. In addition to these large-scale mass gatherings, we support countless other events around the city that range from large runs, bike races, concerts, parades, protests, convention center events, and a very busy Circuit of the Americas track rentals. All Special Events coverage relies on volunteers from field

medics so that we don’t interfere with 911 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. We staffed over 200 unique events, and when broken down to 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. We staffed over 200 separate track rental days not including Formula One, NASCAR, and MotoGP. From all these events combined, we responded to over 1,000 medical incidents using dedicated ATCEMS resources, keeping traditional 911 resources in the community.

ACL

Spanning three days on two consecutive weekends, draws 75,000 fans per day from all over the world. ATCEMS is proud to have successfully managed and supported the medical needs of this event for many years.

1st Qtr 2nd qtr 3rd qtr 4th qtr Special event hours worked 5,404 4,509 5,046 3,892

UT

100,000+ fans that attend the game , Longhorn City Limits, Bevo Blvd, and Smokies Midway have dedicated resources to manage the large call volume on game day in and around DKR Memorial Stadium.

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