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    A festival paramedic reflects on the Astroworld tragedy

    by Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times Nov 24, 2021 5 minutes

    In the 2020 book "Molly, Mushrooms & Mayhem: Stories from Inside the Music Festival Medical Tent," Jim Bollenbacher recounts the first time he witnessed the effects of psychedelic mushrooms. He was working as a paramedic at an electronic dance music festival when he was called by security to check on a young man crawling on the floor, picking imaginary things off the ground and out of the air.

    Back in the medical tent, the young man had a 10-minute conversation about the day's events with someone who wasn't there. "He both asked and answered a number of questions," wrote Bollenbacher, a former attorney and corporate leader who became a paramedic after retiring.

    It's one of the tamer behind-the-scenes stories he recounts in the collection, featuring other tales from fellow EMTs and paramedics. These also include some darker moments, including deaths.

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