Woman Suffers Burns Trying To Hide Fireworks

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Around here, they'll fine you a kilobuck for illegal fireworks. But generally, they won't even respond unless there's a complaint. Once a complaint is filed, you're on your own.

The 4th is a fun day to have a trunked scanner. And drink beer at home.

The cops are pretty cool around here... most of the time. They won't hassle you for fireworks. If you are firing them off and they respond to a complaint they will usually just ask you to "cool it" and remind you that they are illegal. As long as you are polite and respectful, and an adult it nearby they will usually leave it at that. Then again I haven't used fireworks here in quite a number of years. A while back I helped a pyro-technician put on a manually ignited class B professional display and that pretty much cured me of my desire to shoot off fireworks. We spent an entire blazing hot 4th of july day in the hot sun digging mortars into the sand and loading them with shells. Then we spend about 20-30 minutes lighting the with highway fusees and reloading and lighting etc. Finally we lit the finale. When it was over I notice I had lost about 80% of my hearing. Then we spend another 2 hours removing the mortars and loading them back onto the truck. I regained my hearing but probably not all of it. Since that day I haven't even so much as lit off a firecracker.