Trump rally goers wait for hours in heat, more than a dozen rushed to hospital

Following President Trump’s rally in Nebraska, which caused several people to freeze and be rushed to the hospital, the US media has revealed that more than a dozen people were rushed to the hospital after waiting for hours in the heat while attending a rally in Florida. Some people fainted and others had seizures.

Comprehensive NBC, The Hill reported that local time 29, Trump rally in Tampa, Florida, the presence of more than ten attendees affected by the heat of the weather was sent to the hospital.

With temperatures reaching 87 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) that day, Trump spoke for less than an hour at the rally held outside of Rimon James Stadium, but the large number of attendees present had been waiting for hours. US media noted that many of those supporters were not wearing masks.

Fire trucks in the back of the rally had been spraying water into the air to cool down due to the heat, but it was still unbearably hot conditions for some attendees.NBC reporters said the crowd in attendance needed to call for medical personnel every five to 10 minutes. One attendee collapsed at the scene and another suffered a seizure. Eventually, more than a dozen people were taken to the hospital due to discomfort.

Just two days earlier (27th local time), a similar scene occurred at Trump’s rally in Nebraska. The temperature was very low that night, and while many attendees were transported by bus to the venue, there were chaotic scenes of thousands of people stranded after the event. A number of people even had to be taken to the hospital because they were planning to walk back to the parking lot on their own and froze from hypothermia on the way.

CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny said that more than an hour after Trump’s plane left, thousands of people were still stranded on a dark road, the crowd “chaos”.