Comments on: Time To Ban All Private Fireworks

By: BuzzSaw

BuzzSaw — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:01:02 +0000

No, it’s time to bring back the forest products and range grazing industries. No fuel, no fire. Expect resistance from the local billion dollar fire departments.

By: Visible Hand

Visible Hand — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:37:22 +0000

Instead of an outright ban, why not a non-refundable security deposit? Start the deposit at $500 for every $50 of aerial pyrotechnics purchased. Over a couple of years it could be worked out how much the deposit would need to be in order to cover firefighting operations resulting from the use of those types of fireworks.

By: Easterner

Easterner — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:31:05 +0000

It’s all fun & guns until the PUBLIC fireworks go badly

This year in a quick search:
City employee hurt at PUBLIC display
http://www.9news.com/news/local/town-employee-injured-during-fireworks-show/264833088

Barges blow up and dump dangerous fireworks into the bay https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2016/07/05/plymouth-fireworks-barge-catches-fire-bright-malfunction

By: Aggrieved Party

Aggrieved Party — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 07:03:31 +0000

Without “fireworks”, there would have been no “Star Spangled Banner”.
The “rocket’s red glare….the bombs bursting in air”..
Good luck unseating this national mindset!

By: John

John — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:02:46 +0000

Fireworks don’t start fires! Stupid people with fireworks start fires. We should ban stupid people.

By: Ban Stupidity

Ban Stupidity — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:03:39 +0000

You better ban cigarettes and toilet paper too. Those are dangerous and start fires in the foothills as well. What about lightening strikes from good ole Mother Nature? We should be looking at alternative methods of protection including annual prescribed burns prior to Independence day.

By: Eagle Writer

Eagle Writer — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:21:28 +0000

Many good points have been made. I think there is a fair compromise. Sparklers, poppers and fire crackers could be generally purchased for the driveway celebrations, and mortars and aerial displays could require a license.

We can’t regulate stupid but we could regulate the fireworks whose damage the novice cannot control.

By: idaholc

idaholc — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:17:41 +0000

Those churches and non-profits selling “safe and sane” fireworks should reflect on whether their products created the Tablerock/Harris Ranch fire.

Those considering building in the foothills should also reflect on fire and landslide dangers.

A new development in middle of the fire on Warm Springs touts “Lots available”. I wonder how the developers explain the scorched landscape to prospective buyers?

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:31:02 +0000

I identify as a fireworks fan so banning them would cause me mental anguish and I would be forced to sue someone and ask for special legislation on my behalf.

By: boisecynic

boisecynic — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 12:58:05 +0000

Arson kits, haha, funniest thing I’ve read all day.

You can buy enough mortars to fill a sandbagged rental truck but don’t try to buy any ammonium nitrate. It will take a major state of federal building to get McVeighed before any legislature acts on fireworks.

Don’t they spike ammonium nitrate with markers now? And the markers have a paper trail? Why not the same with flying fireworks. Couple that with the affidavit not to launch in Idaho and bam, you got your fire causing suspects.

Bikeboy: I’m with Steve, I don’t recall the mortars being around much until the last 10 years or so.

Bigger Picture: Blame free trade with China. Meanwhile their insane pollution is wafting clear across the Pacific now. You get what you pay for muricans. Happy 4th. BTW, if you float the river, make sure you leave your cheap Chinese vinyl one-use raft on the river bank. I’ll come pick it up for you.