‘We knew something bad was happening’ | Austinite describes the moment he realized something was wrong at Astroworld
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An Austinite serving a food truck at the event is reminiscent of the “chaotic” scene at Astroworld.
AUSTIN, Texas – It wasn’t the first time for Faraz Vohra at the Astroworld Fest in Houston. Austin Food Trucks partner Shawarma Point said his company edited the concert in 2018 and 2019.
“We were very excited to be back this year and things were going pretty well all the time until all of these things happened,” said Vohra.
Vohra said when Travis Scott started and business slowed down he and his brother decided to watch the show and joined the back of the crowd.
At that point, he said everything was normal when it came to festivals. When they started to leave, he said that he noticed that others were going out too.
“And at the time it felt like these people were just dehydrated when they came home from a busy show. And there were a couple of friends there who helped them and gave them water, things like that nobody really knew back then, or at least where I was, what was actually going on in front, “said Vohra.” I think from my point of view 90% had the people probably have no idea that something so terrible was happening just a few meters away from them because everything was so loud and crowded. ”
Vohra remembered the moments when he knew something was wrong. He said they started hearing sirens.
“Lots of ambulances, lots of cops, and I’m talking about 30, 40 different ambulances raiding into the music festival, cops trying to get them onto golf carts – at that point we were like, ‘What’s going on? At?’ The people are running. It’s kind of messy, “said Vohra.” So we knew something bad was happening. We heard people fell into the crowd and some people jumped out and people passed out and things like that. Nobody knew back then. “
He said the news of the deaths of eight people was completely unexpected.
“We were out there and just having fun while a very big tragedy was taking place just a few meters away,” said Vohra. “I’ve been thinking about it all the time and I’m just very, very sad. We are very sorry for the lives we lost.”
Vohra said, from a business perspective, they had thousands of dollars worth of groceries and other items prepared for sale on Saturday. However, as the day’s events were canceled, he said they donated the food to local homeless shelters.
He said the business loss did not occur to them.
“We didn’t care when we found out what happened. We just hoped it wouldn’t escalate,” said Vohra.
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