{"id":195734,"date":"2026-02-27T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:23:08","slug":"after-imposing-illegal-fourth-of-july-fireworks-fees-of-up-to-300k-stanton-settles-for-much-smaller-amount-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195734\/","title":{"rendered":"After imposing illegal Fourth of July fireworks fees of up to $300K, Stanton settles for much smaller amount \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Months after imposing fines of up to $300,000 for illegal firework activity around\u00a0the Fourth of July<\/a> holiday, the city of Stanton has agreed to reduce those penalties to at most $10,000, the city said.<\/p>\n

After the Fourth of July last year, 18 Stanton residents received fines for alleged illegal firework activity, ranging from $1,000 to several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Each alleged instance of illegal firework activity carried a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n

Stanton drones reportedly captured $929,000 worth of illegal firework violations, during last year\u2019s Fourth of July holiday period, according to Stanton City Manager Hannah Shin-Heydorn.<\/p>\n

All of the fines were appealed<\/a> in the fall.<\/p>\n

But, the city has now settled with most of the citation receivers to pay up to $10,000, which can be paid through a monthly payment plan.<\/p>\n

The city rolled out a Fourth of July drone program in 2025 to catch and fine those engaging in illegal firework activity following the passage of a spring ordinance that stated that property owners are responsible for the illegal firework citation regardless of whether they were on the property at the time of the alleged illegal fireworks.<\/p>\n

The ordinance went into effect after years of the city struggling to curb illegal fireworks.\u00a0Before last year\u2019s drone program, illegal firework enforcement relied on Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputies witnessing a person lighting an illegal firework before a citation could be issued, according to OCSD spokesperson Sgt Gerard McCann.<\/p>\n

In neighboring Buena Park, 8-year-old Jasmine Nguyen of Anaheim was\u00a0killed<\/a> by an illegal firework explosion on the Fourth of July in 2025.<\/p>\n

So, what will happen to all that citation money? Under a state health code, 65% of the collected money will go to the State Fire Marshal. The rest will go to the city\u2019s general fund to offset the costs associated with the drone program, said Shin-Heydorn.<\/p>\n

Stanton will continue enforcing illegal firework activity, said the news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Months after imposing fines of up to $300,000 for illegal firework activity around\u00a0the Fourth of July holiday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,963,723,138,4035,91344,100,611,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-195734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-city-government","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","15":"tag-fireworks","16":"tag-fourth-of-july","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-orange-county","19":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}