This story is part of KXAN’s “Preventing Disaster” investigation, which initially published on May 15, 2024. The project follows a fatal car crash into an Austin hospital’s emergency room earlier that ...

Tyler Police are seeking funding for new crowd-protection barriers that could help keep people safe at large East Texas events.

Terrorists typically don’t go where they see barricades, so placing them wherever possible attacks can happen reduces security risks dramatically. Temporary barriers are often used to protect ...

Members of the Mt. Juliet community gathered Friday to celebrate the opening of a new fire station, which is more centrally located — thus allowing for shorter response times — and designed to ...

The Tyler City Council voted Wednesday to support a resolution allowing the Tyler Police Department to apply for a grant from the Texas Governor’s Homeland Security Division to purchase portable crowd ...

The use of fixed curtain rails for laser containment can involve expensive installation costs and for many working environments is simply not a practical solution. Many facilities have workspaces that ...

FAIRGROUNDS. PREPARATIONS ARE UNDERWAY FOR THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIRST STATE FAIR STARTING TWO WEEKS FROM THURSDAY WITH SOME CHANGES THIS YEAR FOCUSING ON SECURITY. THE SAME PORTABLE BARRIERS BOUGHT ...

NEENAH - The 2021 Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy and other crimes that used a vehicle as a deadly weapon have spurred Neenah police to develop strategies to protect outdoor gatherings. The ...

Days after a truck rammed through a Bourbon Street crowd, killing 14 and injuring nearly 60, portable vehicle-stopping barriers were deployed in New Orleans. Those same 700-pound mobile steel barriers ...