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Article: Firefighters looking out for illegal fireworks
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- The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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With the Fourth of July rapidly approaching, firefighters are
gearing up for aggressive patrols through neighborhoods in search of
people illegally lighting fireworks.
Like last year, fire engines will trundle up and down
neighborhood streets from the San Bernardino Valley to the High
Desert, confiscating fireworks and issuing citations if the
situation calls for it.
"The plan is pretty much the same as last year. We'll be driving
through the neighborhoods, and when we see fireworks going up we'll
be after them," said Mike Ward, lead investigator for the San
Bernardino County Fire Department.
Last year's drier-than-normal winter created one of the biggest
wildfire threats in the San ...