This summer’s Fremont Street Festival in California drew more than 200,000 people. Portable vehicle barriers from Delta Scientific, the Californian-based manufacturer of counter-terrorist vehicle control products were in use, as reported by Bay Area TV station KBCW, pictured. A video demonstrates how the barriers work, provides a background of the vehicle terror attacks at London and Nice; and interviews several Fremont people involved with the festival.
Lieut Matt Snelson of the Fremont Police Department said: “We don’t want people to worry about their safety.” Ed Fonseca, president of Fun & Game Rentals, who was in charge of many of the festival rides, related that, festival operatives had to park their own cars in the entrances to help guard festival attendees. With the portable barricades, the entrances are closed to traffic but can be lowered to let law enforcement and delivery vehicles through.
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A dozen self-contained MP5000’s were towed to the 12 entrances into the festival to control vehicle access within 15 minutes apiece. No excavation or sub-surface preparation was required, the product firm adds. Once positioned, the mobile barricades unpacked themselves by using hydraulics to raise and lower the barriers off their wheels. DC-powered pumps then raised the barriers to keep vehicles out or lowered the barrier to let vehicles through. The mobile deployable vehicle crash barriers can stop a 7.5 ton (6400 Kg) vehicle traveling 40 mph (64 kph).
The video can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW3Vw8ySt-w.
The company’s barriers are also in use at embassy and other compounds, and public buildings; to protect sites during VIP visits; at ports and airports; and Windsor Castle.
