5 at Huntington concert taken to hospital

Five people attending a dance party at Huntington's Paramount Theater Saturday night were taken away by emergency responders, officials said.

Huntington Community First Aid Squad spokeswoman Andrea Golinsky said three of the five had been reported as being unconscious. Another was an apparent assault victim who had been punched in the mouth and the fifth individual had injured a finger that had been caught in a door, she said.

Golinsky said all five were taken to Huntington Hospital to be treated and that none sustained life-threatening injuries. She said she did not know their ages, and that four of them were male and one female.

The transports happened between roughly 9:30 p.m. and 1 a.m., Golinsky said. Suffolk County police were on the scene and requested that an ambulance remain on call at the New York Avenue venue, she said, so one stayed stationed there until about 1:30 a.m.

The calendar on the theater's website did not provide details of Saturday night's event. A message left for a manager at the Paramount was not immediately returned. Suffolk County police could not immediately provide details on Saturday's events.

Huntington Fire Department Chief Ken Cochrane said his agency responded to the theater shortly before midnight Saturday after fog machines used at the show set off smoke detectors.

"Definitely a madhouse," was how Cochrane described the scene. "A very young crowd, a very, very young crowd."