{"id":338704,"date":"2017-07-24T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338704"},"modified":"2017-07-24T06:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T06:37:29","slug":"90-hospitalized-during-chance-the-rapper-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338704","title":{"rendered":"90 hospitalized during Chance the Rapper concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p>More than 90 people were\u00a0hospitalized\u00a0in Connecticut during a concert headlined by musician Chance the Rapper, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Hartford Police officers made 50 underage drinking &#8220;referrals&#8221; at the event Friday night, Deputy Chief Brian Foley tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>He described it as a &#8220;busy night, saying most patients were underage concertgoers who suffered severe alcohol intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additional steps will have to be taken to address these issues at these concerts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Grammy Award winner was part of the lineup during Hot 93.7&#8217;s Hot Jam concert at Xfinity Theatre in Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>Foley told the Hartford Courant\u00a0that 90 people\u00a0hospitalized\u00a0is\u00a0more than the average on a regular night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A typical concert is around 20-30 transports. Sixty would be very bad. We had 70 once and 90 last night,&#8221; Foley told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The number was so high, Hartford&#8217;s ambulance provider had to seek extra help, with some patients transported to hospitals in Farmington, Manchester and New Britain, Fire Capt. Raul Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>Artists Kyle, PnB Rock and ANoyd also performed at the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: CNN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 90 people were\u00a0hospitalized\u00a0in Connecticut during a concert headlined by musician Chance the Rapper, authorities said. Hartford Police officers made 50 underage drinking &#8220;referrals&#8221; at the event Friday night, Deputy Chief Brian Foley tweeted. He described it as a &#8220;busy night, saying most patients were underage concertgoers who suffered severe alcohol intoxication. &#8220;Additional steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[9569],"class_list":["post-338704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-chance-the-rapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}