Lighting is an essential element for tented events. It not only illuminates the area, but it also is key to creating a mood, a feeling and an overall energy in the room, rental operators, manufacturers and décor specialists say.

The employees of one rental store have a routine they follow with every rental.

An active shooter is defined as an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims — according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Before joining his family’s equipment rental business, Bledsoe Rentals, based in Lee’s Summit, Mo., Adam Fouts was a police officer — a certified instructor on his way to also becoming certified in defensive tactics.

News reports abound regarding disgruntled employees who enter a business and gun down colleagues. Does that deadly act just happen or might there have been signs someone may have noticed beforehand?