Ahead of Independence Day, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reminds residents that there is \u201czero tolerance\u201d for illegal fireworks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials urged residents to practice caution, as fireworks can cause serious physical harm and handling explosives is best left to trained professionals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year, we see firsthand the life changing burn injuries caused by fireworks,\u201d said Dr. Soman Sen, Assistant Chief of Burns at Shriners Children\u2019s Northern California. \u201cWe always urge families to keep children away from any type of fireworks and ensure that only responsible adults are using legal fireworks \u2013 even then, exercising caution to prevent harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Possession or use of illegal fireworks could result in up to one year in jail, or a fine of up to $50,000. This includes fireworks purchased online, purchased out of state and purchased from unlicensed sellers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some California cities allow for the sale and use of consumer fireworks, but these can only be purchased through permitted booths and must be certified \u201csafe and sane\u201d by the state of California.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The CAL FIRE website includes a list of all of these communities. Gilroy is the only city in Santa Clara County that allows consumer fireworks. Consumer fireworks are illegal in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEach year we continue to see how illegal fireworks \u2013 especially those bought online or shipped into California \u2013 pose a major risk to our communities,\u201d said Chief Daniel Berlant, California State Fire Marshal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of Independence Day, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reminds residents that there is \u201czero…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[100,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-377681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377681","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=377681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}