SHERIFF'S CAPTAIN GUYOVICH ADVISES NOT TO USE ILLEGAL FIREWORKS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 1, 2008 ;     537 words ......Lakewood Sheriff's Station has a message for illegal fireworks users: "Don't use illegal fireworks. Don't tolerate those who do. Don't let anyone say that it's okay to use illegal fireworks just because it's the 4th of July." Tolerance...

Task Force Snuffs Out Illegal Fireworks

The Washington Post;  July 4, 2007 ;     409 words ......District task force shut down an illegal fireworks distributor Saturday and collected...Avenue SE with a vehicle full of illegal fireworks he had tried to sell to licensed...have a "significant impact" on illegal fireworks for Fourth of July celebrations...

Vic: Police seize 1,500 kilograms of illegal fireworks

AAP General News (Australia);  May 2, 2003 ;     300 words ......Police seize 1,500 kilograms of illegal fireworks MELBOURNE, May 2 AAP - Police...seized more than 1,500kg of illegal fireworks in Victoria following a four...dramatic increase in the amount of illegal fireworks being used in the general community...

Zero tolerance policy for illegal fireworks in neighborhoods

The Arab American News;  June 23, 2007 ;     547 words ......to property when people use illegal fireworks," said Chief of Police Michael...prohibit the sale and use of illegal fireworks, or the unsafe use of legal...a $500 fine. In all cases, illegal fireworks will be confiscated. To report...

PSNI in vow to stamp out illegal fireworks Message sent out to act within...

Belfast Telegraph;  October 15, 2005 ;     335 words ......night vowed to continue seizing illegal fireworks and prosecuting those who break...permitted at all. They are all illegal."Fireworks should only be purchased from...under five years,'"."Remember illegal fireworks do not, in many cases, comply...

Whittier-area officials get tough on illegal fireworks

Whittier Daily News;  June 26, 2006 ;     456 words ......Confiscating 20,000 pounds of illegal fireworks is a slow year in our area...foot container" filled with illegal fireworks, he said. Each Fourth of July...departments to crack down on illegal fireworks in Santa Fe Springs, Montebello...

Illegal fireworks activity on par with previous years, police say

Oakland Tribune;  July 6, 2006 ;     562 words ......fires than last year because of illegal fireworks, but residents complained of...of firefighters setting off illegal fireworks themselves Tuesday evening...In other parts of the city, illegal fireworks were set off until the wee...

EVERY JULY 4, ILLINOIS becomes AN ISLAND SURROUNDED BY BOTTLE ROCKETS &...

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  June 20, 2006 ;     565 words ......expecting a long weekend of illegal fireworks surrounding the Fourth of July...likely means a long weekend of illegal fireworks complaints for area police...July 19. Incidents involving illegal fireworks, and complaints called in about...

MAYOR BLOOMBERG, POLICE COMMISSIONER KELLY, FIRE COMMISSIONER SCOPPETTA...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 29, 2007 ;     616 words ......transporting, buying, selling or using illegal fireworks. In New York City, all consumer...This year, over 1,100 cases of illegal fireworks have been confiscated by the...for possessing or trafficking illegal fireworks; and 29 vehicles have been...

Police confiscate tons of illegal fireworks

Whittier Daily News;  July 7, 2005 ;     331 words ......bought a family- sized pack of illegal fireworks when deputies spotted him coming...operation to crack down on illegal fireworks. On Wednesday, deputies showed...people; 320 for possessing illegal fireworks. Last year, deputies confiscated...

Illegal fireworks found in garage

Whittier Daily News;  July 1, 2005 ;     264 words ......where about $20,000 worth of illegal fireworks were stored, deputies said...Pico Rivera Station, reporting illegal fireworks at a house on Call Street near...deputies found about 30 cases of illegal fireworks. The cases included rockets...

Fire officials working to keep illegal fireworks off streets

Whittier Daily News;  June 29, 2005 ;     351 words ......authorities already are confiscating illegal fireworks by the ton - literally. So...train car with confiscated illegal fireworks. Three other trailers are half-fu...and through Internet sales, illegal fireworks continue to pour into the state...

Citations for illegal fireworks down

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  July 5, 2007 ;     652 words ......increased enforcement against the use of illegal fireworks in many Inland Valley cities seems to...Ton of fireworks seized Photo Gallery: Illegal Fireworks seized in Pomona Video: Illegal Fireworks seized in Pomona Now that the smoke has...

Police arrest 2 men in illegal fireworks sales

Oakland Tribune;  June 29, 2007 ;     174 words ......men on suspicion of selling illegal fireworks Wednesday. After Jeremy Petrell...property and seized $25,000 of illegal fireworks, said interim Livermore police...by the state. "Technically, (illegal fireworks) constitute explosives," Livermore-Pleasant...

Fire marshals trying to keep illegal fireworks off California streets.

San Gabriel Valley Tribune (West Covina, CA);  June 30, 2005 ;     618 words ......authorities already are confiscating illegal fireworks by the ton literally. So far...container with confiscated illegal fireworks. Three other trailers are half-fu...and through Internet sales, illegal fireworks continue to pour into the state...