EDC 2025 Kickstarts in Las Vegas Amid Safety Concerns

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), one of Las Vegas‘s most vibrant and unique events, is set to begin tomorrow at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Preparations for this year’s festival have been underway for several months, involving Metro, Community Ambulance, Clark County Fire and Rescue, and the medical staff at the University Medical Center (UMC).

These teams will work tirelessly through the end of the event on Monday to ensure the safety of the festival’s attendees, who are expected to number upwards of 150,000 each night over the weekend. Glen Simpson, the senior director for Community Ambulance, detailed the extensive medical preparations.

“We’ll deploy upwards of about 200 medical personnel each day over the course of the festival itself, and basically we will build an emergency room on site so it’ll be staffed with position level care, nurses, physician assistants, EMTs, paramedics, critical care paramedics, advanced EMTs, you name it,” said Simpson. “It takes a village to be able to put together what we will view as a very successful medical operation.”

Simpson noted that based on past experiences, approximately one percent of attendees each night will require some form of medical attention, ranging from minor injuries to more serious issues such as drug overdoses. As excitement builds for the festival, data surrounding safety and past incidents underscore the importance of these preparations.

According to reports, during a ten-year period from 1992 to 2002, 66,787 people suffered significant injury and 232 people died at 306 outdoor music concerts worldwide. As the EDC draws near, safety concerns have emerged, prompting personal injury attorneys to offer tips on protecting oneself at such large events.