[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Bonfire night/Fourth of July fireworks

[Rebecca K Hubbard]

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



Yb:

That was the strangest thing when I was in Phoenix for the summer: no
personal fireworks, 

not even sparklers. Being originally from Indiana, where they are most
definitely legal, it felt 

a little strange. At home, we'd sit on the proch and watch the neighbors
set fireworks off... 

we'd get a different show each night for about three or four nights.

 

~Yb 



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