“When people want to get out, they’ll do whatever they can when they realize what’s going on. “I’m certain that it helped them,” he said.
The lower height, he said, made it easier for people flee. John White, president of Canton, Ohio-based Protection Management LLC, figures the body and injury counts would have been higher if the that area of the fencing had been 6 or 8 feet high. The barrier - which appeared to be no more than 4 feet high - likely helped frenzied concertgoers make a faster escape from the barrage of gunfire that rained down on them at Sunday night’s mass shooting. Security barriers are typically used to keep trouble at bay.īut the low-slung fencing that divided a portion of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas may ultimately have saved the lives of many inside the concert area.
