Six people were transported to Rex Hospital for treatment from the heat, and approximately 100 were treated on site for heat exhaustion and dehydration during Saturday’s game, according to Capt. Jon Barnwell of Campus Police.

The 90-degree weather at the game versus Clemson caught some off guard.

“People don’t take enough fluids before the game,” he said.

The heat exhaustion, Barnwell said, is typical of any outdoor event that takes place in 90-degree weather around noon.

“Any major event where it’s 90 degrees and at 12 p.m., you’re going to have issues involving heat,” he said.

According to Barnwell, at the health care tents, workers gave people water and fluids and then let them go.

The more serious cases, where people needed more than water to hydrate them, were transported to the hospital and given IVs, Barnwell said.

In addition to not drinking enough water before a game, he said excessive alcohol consumption does not help the situation.

“People have taken in excess alcohol and that allows dehydration,” he said.

John Palumbo, a freshman in engineering, said the heat was so bad, he and his friends who were sitting toward the top of section 7A, left during the third quarter of the game.

The concession stands ran out of water bottles during half time.

Palumbo said they were about $3 each, so they were too expensive for some students to purchase anyway.

“It was rough,” he said. “We were right where the sun was. There was no shade.”

According to Barnwell, although the water bottles ran out during half time, the health care areas had tap water and ice available, and the stands restocked with water bottles by the end of the third quarter.

Matias La Serna, a senior in architecture, said some health care areas even ran out of water and ice during half time.

Although La Serna stayed throughout the entire game, he said he was lying down and watched the game on the big screen.

“It had less to do with the heat and more with the quality of the game,” he said, but he did get more shade down there.

La Serna said, at one point, he saw someone faint.

“I was standing in line at the ATM machine, and I saw the woman in front of me faint,” he said.

According to both La Serna and Palumbo, it was the hottest game they had attended.

La Serna added that it seemed event staff did not really plan adequately enough for the game’s heat.

Palumbo did say, however, that the towels the staff passed out at the beginning of the game were helpful.