Bonfire night/Fourth of July fireworks

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, LunaLovesHarry at a... wrote:
> >>"The hospitals are invariably filled with victims of mis-handled
fireworks 
> "<<
> 
> This sounds like our 4th of July only in that the idiots with illegal 
> fireworks, or who light them off in wrong ways or areas manage to
lose limbs or 
> scorch themselves!!  Of course our 4th is a celebration of
Independance and not a 
> thwarted terror-like attack.  Just thought the above quote sounded
like what 
> happens here a lot on the 4th.  :)
> 
> "Luna"

Carol:
In Flagstaff, Arizona, where I grew up, fireworks were (are?) illegal
because the City government (or maybe the U.S. Forest Service) was
afraid of forest fires, and you had to drive fifty miles or so to
Prescott, a smaller city, to see Fourth of July fireworks. Even in
Tucson, in the middle of the Sonora Desert, the fireworks displays
have been canceled in dry years. IIRC, sparklers and other small
fireworks are illegal in most of Arizona, but a lot of people buy them
in Mexico and sneak them over the border. The police will generally
leave you alone if you set them off in a parking lot away from any
cars, but woe betide you if you start a brushfire in a vacant lot or a
forest fire in the mountains! (Bear in mind that the average annual
precipitation in Tucson is twelve inches per year and we've been way
below that for about ten years.)

http://phoenix.gov/FIRE/firewks.html

Carol