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Barricades missing at intersections during public eventDes Moines IA

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Downtown Des Moines, Des Moines, IA

During a large public event in downtown Des Moines, several barricades at multiple intersections are missing or displaced. This situation creates safety concerns and risks of unauthorized vehicles entering restricted areas. Officials are checking locations near 12th, Walnut, Grand, Mulberry, and Locust streets to ensure barricades are placed correctly and blocking access as intended.

Audio|Source: Polk County, Dallas County, and Warren County Public Safety and ISP
05:20
Transcript:
02:29
Hey, sir, I just want to let you know that along 12th, none of us have barricades in any direction.
02:38
They should be about a block away on your plan there. Look at where you're at here.
02:43
You're at 12th and what?
02:46
I'm the Twelfth and Locas, but both you guys saw in Walnut and Grand, doesn't look like you have any barricades.
02:56
Even have locked away, huh?
03:03
Joseph to Beardsley, we got barricaded to the west of Twelfth and Walnut, so we should be solved there.
03:13
Yeah,
03:15
like mentioned a roll call, go a block away from your intersection and see if they're there.
03:19
The Barricade Company should have done that. Drag them out in the middle.
03:22
You need to replace them so people don't come right upon you.
03:26
And there should be a dead plan should be there too.
03:30
Iowa Plains is the Barricade Company, but see if you can go a block away from each of your intersections and see what you have there.
04:37
And there's barricades at, whoever has Mulberry, there's a barricade at 13th of Mulberry, there's a barricade at 13th of mulberry, there's a barricade 11th of mulberry, so there should be a block away from here.
04:48
Walnut has one at 13th of walnut and a tenth of walnut.
04:52
So you guys can go down there and look at that. Locust is the one-way eastbound. There's a barricade of 13th and locust.
04:58
You can check that.
05:00
11th and grand, 11th and high, or 12th and high, there's barricades there.
05:05
You guys can double-check those.

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