The sky over the Sacramento area is filled with illegal fireworks on Saturday night, LiveCopter 3 footage shows. Watch a livestream from LiveCopter 3 in the video above. Watch our evening newscasts in the video below. (Video below: Illegal fireworks on the Fourth of July.)The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office and agencies across Northern California will be out through the weekend, looking for people shooting off illegal fireworks.They’ll use aircraft and ground teams to look for offenders. People caught may be arrested or cited, and they could face fines of up to $10,000 per device. Parents of minors will be held responsible if their children are caught with illegal fireworks.The Sacramento Fire Department will deploy drones for enforcement.”We’ll be in full enforcement. They’re in undisclosed locations. All we can say is one is in the North area, one is in the South area, and that’s subject to change upon firework behavior,” said Capt. Justin Sylvia of the Sacramento Fire Department.Sacramento Regional Fire dispatchers are bracing for more than 1,000 calls on Saturday night alone, with additional staff on hand to manage the increased volume.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google

The sky over the Sacramento area is filled with illegal fireworks on Saturday night, LiveCopter 3 footage shows.

Watch a livestream from LiveCopter 3 in the video above. Watch our evening newscasts in the video below.

(Video below: Illegal fireworks on the Fourth of July.)

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office and agencies across Northern California will be out through the weekend, looking for people shooting off illegal fireworks.

They’ll use aircraft and ground teams to look for offenders. People caught may be arrested or cited, and they could face fines of up to $10,000 per device. Parents of minors will be held responsible if their children are caught with illegal fireworks.

The Sacramento Fire Department will deploy drones for enforcement.

“We’ll be in full enforcement. They’re in undisclosed locations. All we can say is one is in the North area, [and] one is in the South area, and that’s subject to change upon firework behavior,” said Capt. Justin Sylvia of the Sacramento Fire Department.

Sacramento Regional Fire dispatchers are bracing for more than 1,000 calls on Saturday night alone, with additional staff on hand to manage the increased volume.

See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google