Article: Chino sees less illegal fireworks

CHINO - New rules adopted to keep illegal fireworks out of city parks were successful on July 4th weekend, but more work must be done to keep the banned items out of neighborhoods, city officials said.

More than 100 Chino police employees patrolled the streets between 8 and 11 on Sunday night to enforce city regulations and inform the public that fireworks were no longer allowed in city parks and shopping centers.

Nearly 12,000 illegal fireworks were confiscated during the patrols, police said.

That number dropped from the nearly 48,000 illegal fireworks collected in 2003, but fire and police officials said that may be because so many citations were written.

Chino police worked with the ...

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