COLUMBUS — For greater than 4 many years, Crimson, White and Growth has been a staple in Columbus.
And annually to verify it runs safely, regulation enforcement officers collaborate to verify the realm is safe.
“Routine security only for individuals popping out right here to have an excellent time,” stated Franklin County Sheriff, Dallas Baldwin. “We have now numerous first responders working the occasion.”
Sheriff Baldwin isn’t any stranger to the occasion. He’s labored it virtually yearly because it started. The sheriff stated they workers the occasion with their bomb squad, dive workforce, sheriffs deputies, horse-mounted models and bike patrol.
That’s along with the Columbus police and fireplace departments who’re additionally on responsibility.
“Dive workforce retains the waterways clear in the course of the precise occasion when the fireworks are going off as a result of it’s a security zone as they’re coming down and touchdown within the water, so we have to hold individuals cleared out of that space,” Baldwin stated.
To verify nothing suspicious enters the realm, the Bomb Squad totally inspects every automobile as a security precaution.
“Simply to verify there’s no explosive machine or one thing unsafe like would get into the realm,” Baldwin stated.
They use expertise that scans the beneath of car and flags something that appears out of the strange.
In the meantime, Sgt. Mickey Casper, with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Workplace, stated they’re totally staffed to arrange for any potential risk to allow them to hold everybody secure.
“It is a multi-agency operation. You’ve got Columbus Fireplace, you may have the Franklin County Sheriff’s Workplace, you may have Columbus Police, you may have Homeland Safety, everyone seems to be down right here sweeping the edges and making every part secure,” Mickey stated.
And with the occasion occurring in the course of the summer time months, additionally they have to arrange for the warmth.
“If you get this many individuals, a half one million individuals in a congested space, temperatures rising, we all the time do have a priority that individuals may get overheated, simply well being points, issues like that,” Baldwin stated.