{"id":953722,"date":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953722\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","slug":"fireworks-fines-of-up-to-50000-in-surrey-with-halloween-and-diwali-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953722\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks fines of up to $50,000 in Surrey with Halloween and Diwali here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween in Surrey, Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>What could go wrong? <\/p>\n<p>Festivities will involve fireworks, no doubt, even though Surrey bans their sale, purchase, possession and use without a permit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/about-surrey\/surrey-fire-services\/fireworks-pyrotechnics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Fire Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say, Roman Candles and other fireworks will be seen and heard during Diwali celebrations Nov. 8, too, despite warnings of fines of up to $50,000 for illegal use or possession of fireworks in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints should be directed to City of Surrey Bylaws, 604-591-4370 (do not call 911 unless it\u2019s an emergency).<\/p>\n<p>Tonight and next week, fireworks-busting bylaw enforcement officers will be deployed in high-activity areas across Surrey, working in collaboration with police. \u201cOfficers will respond to reports, gather evidence, issue tickets and engage police as needed,\u201d says a post on surrey.ca.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks can lead to fires, serious injuries and distress for both humans and pets, cautions Surrey bylaws officer Grewal in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1eUUxCnDPZ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">video posted to Surrey\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/10\/26\/safety-tips-halloween-and-diwali-in-surrey-and-white-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here to read more Halloween-related tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween in Surrey, Saturday night. What could go wrong? Festivities will involve fireworks, no doubt, even though Surrey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-953722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}