Extra Security for Grandma’s Marathon

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This weekend the Duluth Police Department has all hands on deck to make sure everyone is safe at one of Duluth’s biggest events.

“We’ve been down here since 4 o’clock this morning,” Duluth Police Department Sgt. Gayle Holton said.

Officers helped put up barricades and search the area.

The bomb disposal unit was part of the heavy presence at Grandma’s Marathon.

On foot, horse or bike they roamed through the crowds looking for suspicious activities, people and packages.

“After the Boston bombing of course everybody wants to feel safe,” said Holton. “So what we’re really trying to do is make it feel like a safe place to be that it isn’t a security zone, that it isn’t a dangerous zone. That it is just flat out a secure safe place to go and have fun with your family.”

The FBI, homeland security and medical teams were also deployed to help keep things secure.

Law enforcement officials stayed in Canal Park until bar close.

Some of the businesses even hired their own private security.