Since the Indian's State Fair tragedy over the weekend, the Minnesota State Fair has been triple checking their stage and building structures and safety protocol and plans.
In Indiana, inspectors work to determine what went wrong when the wind gust toppled the stage, there will be more eyes on the stage that will be constructed in Minnesota later this week.
The Minnesota Grandstand stage that will be built by an outside contractor named Premier Global, has a form that looks a lot like the stage in Indiana. The Minnesota State Fair says it's a portable stage and that they don't have any permanent stages. After what happened in IN, the Minnesota fair is going to have people on site with the stage throughout the fair.
Also, the Minnesota State Fair upping their severe weather safety protocol. They are identifying on the map the five best building for taking shelter and how they will report the news to fair goers.
The event in Indiana was terrible. I think their management and PR team handled it as best they could. It's hard to know what to do, but I think their statement was well thought out and it was really nice they held a ceremony before reopening the fair on Monday. They have received some criticism for not just closing the fair all together. To that I say, how can you? It's only once a year and so much money is put into it from all directions - from vendors, farmers, and sponsors. The show must really go on as sad as it is to say.
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