Hundreds of thousands of people are coming from around the globe this weekend to attend Austin's PRIDE Festival and Parade.

And protecting all those people is a top priority.

For hours, volunteers brave the heat, laying out banners for the event at Festival Beach.

At the same time, PRIDE organizer Paul Huddleston continues to map out a security plan, just in case something goes wrong.

"I take the security of the LGBTQ community very seriously," Huddleston said. "That came from growing up gay in Texas and we are still in the south. You always want to be more prepared than not prepared."

Huddleston says the security plan for Austin PRIDE is 47 pages long. It's filled with maps and procedures, and he believes event organizers are prepared for just about anything.

"There's a plan for every incident you can think of, whether it be chemical burns, fires, bombs, guns, you name it we've got it in there," he said.

With as many as 300,000 coming to the PRIDE festival and parade this weekend, the organization is working with Austin Police, The Department of Public Safety and private security firms to make sure the crowd stays safe.

Some uniformed officers will be easy to spot, while others will be in plain clothes or above the festivities.

"There'll be people on roofs of buildings scanning the crowd and looking for issues, and there'll be two helicopters in the air," Huddleston said.

Austin Police say the festival and parade have been incident-free for the past few years, and APD's Special Events Commander Tim Pruett wants to keep it that way.

"Ever sense the Orlando incident, we knew our event was coming up so we've been preparing ever since that incident," he said. "We have our intelligence unit that's working with us as far as any type of threats that might have come across but at this point we don't have any."

Austin Police say they have called in a number of extra officers to provide security throughout the weekend.

There will be roads closed downtown as the PRIDE parade moves through Saturday evening.

Congress Avenue will be closed from Fourth Street to 11th Street from 5 to 11 p.m.

Fourth will be closed from Guadalupe to Congress.

If you're parked along those streets, you'll need to move your vehicle by 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon to avoid being towed.