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Article: Task Force Snuffs Out Illegal Fireworks
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 4, 2007
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A District task force shut down an illegal fireworks distributor
Saturday and collected 55 boxes of fireworks, fire department
officials announced yesterday, standing against a backdrop of
confiscated boxes with markings such as "Super Nitro," "Liberty
S.S." and "Happy Fingers."
The distributor, whom the task force would not identify, was
arrested on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE with a vehicle full of
illegal fireworks he had tried to sell to licensed fireworks booths
in Southeast, said Alan Etter, spokesman for the D.C. Fire and
Emergency Medical Services Department. Fire Marshal Gary Palmer said
the raid should have a "significant impact" on illegal fireworks for
Fourth of July ...