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AUSTIN, Texas — Officials with Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS) report that medics responded to 16 calls and transported eight people to the hospital over the course of Saturday’s Texas Football game against Rice at Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.
Of the 16 incidents, ATCEMS said six were due to heat-related illnesses.
According to ATCEMS, approximately 80 other people were treated at in-stadium aid stations. The agency estimates at least half of those incidents were caused by the heat.
it was 165 degrees on the field and the field smelled like melting rubber according to the fox sideline reporter.