An article at ArrowLakesNews.com covers the effort to ban all fireworks in British Columbia:
The Fire Chiefs’ Association of British Columbia (FCABC) is trying to ban fireworks permanently throughout the province, and after much debate, the Nakusp council will not be sending a letter of support.
Bruce Mabin, zone four director of the FCABC, wrote that a bylaw should be drafted in each area around the Kootenays banning the sale and distribution entirely.
“It is our belief that the annual increased level for wildland fires each year in our areas makes the use of consumer fireworks a constant threat for instigation of a wildfire,” he wrote.
Nakusp fire chief Terry Warren said it’s just not worth it, because in his opinion the risk isn’t worth the reward.
“They’re just too dangerous,” he said. “The biggest issue is in the fire-ban season, when people from other provinces see these fireworks for sale and start setting them off. It’s a problem throughout the province.”
According to the FCABC, 8,000 children are injured and 20 people die each year in North America from improper fireworks use.
Roughly 120 amputations occur annually to the hands and fingers.
The rest of the article is here.
Wildfire Today has written about the fireworks problem many times.
