Western University homecoming attracts thousands [Video]

Thousands of students packed Huron St. and Broughdale Ave. on Saturday for Western University’s homecoming.

On Broughdale Ave, barricades kept students to the sidewalks, and on Huron, officers kept directing the young people away from the middle of the road for emergency vehicles.

When CTV arrived, London Middlesex EMS was using the “mega mover” to carry a patient out of Broughdale Ave., while paramedics were tending to another person who fell hard on Huron St.

London Middlesex EMS carries a patient off Broughdale Ave. in a “mega mover” during off-campus Western Homecoming festivities (Brent Lale/CTV News London)

“We haven’t had any major incidents as of right now,” Sgt. Sandasha Bough of the London Police Service (LPS) told CTV News around 3:30 p.m.

“We can say that we’ve had to take a couple of people out and paramedic services have assisted with that. We have roads closed temporarily.”

Helping LPS were …