BAN ALL ILLEGAL FIREWORKS

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BAN ALL ILLEGAL FIREWORKS

In 2001, 9,500 people sustained an injury from fireworks serious enough to send them to their local emergency room. The majority of the injuries were burns (58.9%). Forty seven percent of the injuries were suffered by children under 14 years old.
Also, the NFPA reports that 24,200 fires were the result of fireworks in 1999 at a cost of $17.2 million in direct property damage.

A ban on the sale of consumer fireworks is supported by numerous nalional organizations. Click on the "Support for a Ban on Consumer Fireworks" on our Home Page.


A number of counties and municipalities already have meaningful restrictions on the sale of fireworks. In general, they provide that fireworks, other than sparklers, may be purchased only for the uses specified in the State Statutes, and the purchaser must provide proof of identification, and proof that the purchase is in compliance with the State Statutes. The mere signing of a form is not sufficient to comply with the State Statues.
(The ordinance does not apply to firework displays conducted by professionals).


In Pinellas County the effort to enact the ordinance to ban the sale of illegal fireworks had broad support from municipalities throughout the County and unanimous support from Neighborhood Associations. Please solicit support from your neighborhood association and ask your Neighborhood or Civic Association and the members to write or e-mail the Legislators.


Call, e-mail or write all your Legislators asking them to strengthen Statute 791 and make it clear that fireworks should not be sold or discharged within our neighborhoods.

Please visit the “Ban All Illegal Fireworks” web site for additional information, including contact information for your State legislators. The address is: www.banillegalfireworks.org

Please contact all your State Senators and Representatives today.