{"id":352891,"date":"2026-06-09T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352891\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:43:09","slug":"news-12-long-island-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352891\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The City of Long Beach is cracking down on the use of illegal fireworks ahead of the summer season.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fines are now increased to up to $15,000 and the new ordinance also means you could even spend 15 days in jail.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The measure was passed by city councilmembers, with a vote of 4-0, at a meeting on June 2.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The amended code also includes the sale and discharge of firearms and other explosives.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Previously, the fine for setting off fireworks was $250 and there was no possibility of jailtime.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A judge will decide which penalty to impose in each case.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The ordinance went into effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Long Beach is cracking down on the use of illegal fireworks ahead of the summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-352891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352891","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=352891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}