Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPittsburgh is preparing for America’s 250th Independence Day celebration with heightened safety measures, including increased police presence, drone surveillance, and security checkpoints. “We want to make sure that everybody have a safe event. And when you feel as if individuals are watching at the hypervigilance, it’s because of various reasons. The target that it is the 250 requires hypervigilance from a public safety sector,” said a public safety director, Sheldon Williams. City, state, and county police will be patrolling the event, and security perimeters have been established at Point State Park, where attendees will need to pass through checkpoints. New this year, the city\u2019s drone unit will monitor the area from above. “Our drones allow us to identify issues, respond faster and keep people safe, especially with large crowds,” said Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando. With recent teen takeovers in the city, Williams strongly recommended that parents be aware of their children\u2019s whereabouts during the celebrations. “They’re dealing with ranges of kids from 8 all the way up to 18, and it’s disturbing to see that you have young kids out at late-night hours. I’m talking after 9:00, 12:00, 1:00 in the morning. And that type of behavior is the responsibility of the parents. So we’re making a strong recommendation that they just do exactly that. Be parents, be aware of where your kids are,” Williams said. Public safety officials are also addressing the summer heat by providing misting stations and free cooling towels throughout the area. Fireworks are scheduled to begin at 9:35 p.m. Saturday night, covering Alco and Mount Washington.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Pittsburgh is preparing for America’s 250th Independence Day celebration with heightened safety measures, including increased police presence, drone surveillance, and security checkpoints. <\/p>\n
“We want to make sure that everybody have a safe event. And when you feel as if individuals are watching at the hypervigilance, it’s because of various reasons. The target that it is the 250 requires hypervigilance from a public safety sector,” said a public safety director, Sheldon Williams. <\/p>\n
City, state, and county police will be patrolling the event, and security perimeters have been established at Point State Park, where attendees will need to pass through checkpoints. New this year, the city\u2019s drone unit will monitor the area from above. <\/p>\n
“Our drones allow us to identify issues, respond faster and keep people safe, especially with large crowds,” said Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando. <\/p>\n
With recent teen takeovers in the city, Williams strongly recommended that parents be aware of their children\u2019s whereabouts during the celebrations. <\/p>\n
“They’re dealing with ranges of kids from 8 all the way up to 18, and it’s disturbing to see that you have young kids out at late-night hours. I’m talking after 9:00, 12:00, 1:00 in the morning. And that type of behavior is the responsibility of the parents. So we’re making a strong recommendation that they just do exactly that. Be parents, be aware of where your kids are,” Williams said. <\/p>\n
Public safety officials are also addressing the summer heat by providing misting stations and free cooling towels throughout the area. <\/p>\n
Fireworks are scheduled to begin at 9:35 p.m. Saturday night, covering Alco and Mount Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITY SAYS THEY\u2019RE READY TO GO. YEAH, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS A HUGE EVENT. AND NOT ONLY DO THEY…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-234772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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