{"id":394876,"date":"2026-07-11T18:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394876\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:08:24","slug":"dangerous-july-4-prompts-sf-supervisors-to-look-into-stronger-penalties-for-illegal-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394876\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dangerous&#8217; July 4 Prompts SF Supervisors To Look Into Stronger Penalties For Illegal Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If fireworks-related calls are concentrated in certain neighborhoods, that also means the residents living with explosions, fires, trauma, sleep disruption, and danger are from those same neighborhoods,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Equity cannot only mean limiting enforcement, it must also mean protecting residents in impacted communities when they&#8217;re asking for relief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some public commenters, like Bernal Heights resident Flo Kelly, argued that law enforcement should focus on those who sell illegal fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make sure that these things don&#8217;t get sold,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You might have a better outcome if you can coordinate with all of the towns around us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite some opposition, the two other supervisors on the committee asked to be added as cosponsors to the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand the spirit and excitement of fireworks,&#8221; said Supervisor Danny Sauter. &#8220;But I think, as was stated earlier, it&#8217;s best left to the professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;If fireworks-related calls are concentrated in certain neighborhoods, that also means the residents living with explosions, fires, trauma,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-394876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394876","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=394876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}