Fresno vendors gear up for a busy Valentine's Day, police stress safety during the day

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- People successful Fresno are rushing to bargain their last-minute gifts from flowers to chocolate. Making it a precise engaged time for section vendors.

Driving down Tulare Avenue successful Southeast Fresno, vendors acceptable up connected the sidewalk were selling everything from flowers to gifts and chocolate.

Linda Torres and her girl unloaded their car and acceptable up their table, which was filled with Valentine's Day merchandise. They were getting acceptable for radical to bargain their last-minute gifts.

Torres spent hours preparing for the holiday.

"It does instrumentality up your time," said Torres, "a batch of your clip trying to fig retired the mode you privation it and however you privation to contiguous it."

She said Valentine's and Mother's Day are her busiest days.

"A batch of radical amusement their appreciation of buying stuff, taking them out," said Torres, "that's the mode radical amusement their love."

It was Torres' archetypal clip selling astatine that location. Torres has been retired determination for the past fewer days. On Tuesday night, she was adjacent determination till 9 p.m.

With radical making their past infinitesimal buys, Fresno Police privation radical to support this successful mind.

"When they're retired and astir shopping, beryllium alert of their surroundings," said Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega with the Fresno Police Department, "especially if they are buying out, possibly similar a nationalist vendor retired connected the streets."

Fresno Police said truthful acold they haven't received immoderate reports involving vendors.

On a engaged holiday, Torres says she tries to enactment alert of her surroundings. She'll besides person her friends and household with her.

"We'll locomotion around," said Torres, "we marque definite we look astatine who walks oregon who's looking oregon who's staring," said Torres.

Sgt. Trueba Vega besides said having aggregate radical and information successful numbers is what they're encouraging vendors to do.

If buying from a vendor, Fresno Police urges radical to wage the nonstop magnitude alternatively of utilizing large bills. Police adhd that officers volition beryllium retired successful unit contiguous making definite that couples and families enactment harmless portion they're retired for their Valentine's Day plans.

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