Big Fresno Fair debuts new safety measures, including clear bag policy

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Whether you're towering supra the crowds connected stilts oregon cruising done the fairgrounds, information remains a apical precedence astatine the Big Fresno Fair.

The yearly 12-day lawsuit offers 2 layers of extortion to attendees: Fresno Police and the fair's ain backstage information company.

"It's by acold 1 of the safest places successful Fresno to be," said Lt. Anthony Dewall with Fresno Police.

Fresno Police volition person a ample beingness astatine each of the 4 main entrances into the fair.

Once inside, attendees volition spot officers patrolling connected the ground, successful the aerial and crossed aggregate camera screens wrong its Police Command Station connected the fairgrounds.

"There's besides immoderate artificial quality built in," Dewall said. "If we wanted to way somebody, if a fishy was progressive successful something, we could bash that, too."

Fair administrators collectively decided to marque this Big Fresno Fair the inaugural twelvemonth of the wide container policy, modeling akin information measures astatine different section venues.

"Like Saroyan Theatre, Fresno State shot games, Grizzlies Stadium, and adjacent different fairs astir California," said Taylor Collins, Special Event and Program Coordinator for the Big Fresno Fair.

The Big Fresno Fair says the argumentation is portion of the fair's effort to enactment up-to-date with existent information trends, with the anticipation to marque assemblage travel and information smoother for everyone.

"I spell to a batch of antithetic events and the wide bags marque it truthful overmuch easier and you tin spot what's going on," Fresno County nonmigratory Denise Tomlinson said.

Permittable bags that don't request to beryllium wide see those smaller than 4.5" x 6.5" x 2"

Clear bags are acceptable up to 12" x 6" x 12"

Exceptions see diaper bags, aesculapian bags, and pupil backpacks during just acquisition days.

Attendees accidental the measurement is perfectly needed successful this epoch of outdoor information and protection.

"Every lawsuit we've been to successful the past mates of years has already been doing it, truthful I person nary problem," Tomlinson said.

"I'm comfy with it. It's beauteous easy, I conscionable enactment worldly successful a wide bag," said fairgoer Andy Rock.

The Big Fresno Fair volition besides enforce its Youth Admission Policy each Friday and Saturday. After 7 p.m., attendees nether 18 indispensable beryllium accompanied by an big who's 21 oregon older.

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