Orange Crush 2025: Georgia beach town in permit showdown over crime-fueled college fest
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Tybee Island, Georgia, welcomes back Orange Crush in April. Mayor Brian West explains how the city plans to curb crime, traffic, litter and other problems during the spring break event.
"It was complete mayhem." "The party needs to be at a bigger place with more access." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"Parking areas basically became disaster areas because we had people who were either shooting off fireworks that sounded like guns, or they were actually shooting guns, and people were running and stampeding. … It was riotous. It was really bad," West said of the 2023 event.
While the event is no longer affiliated with Savannah State, it is returning to Tybee Island on Easter weekend, expected to draw an estimated 50,000 attendees to the three-mile-long island.
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