{"id":236969,"date":"2026-07-06T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236969\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:55:07","slug":"stats-show-pittsburgh-fireworks-task-force-responds-to-91-calls-over-fourth-of-july-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236969\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats show Pittsburgh Fireworks Task Force responds to 91 calls over Fourth of July weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Public Safety Department officials are sharing the numbers from a busy Fourth of July Weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Information shared by safety officials on Monday revealed what police, firefighters and medics were up to as residents flooded North Shore and Point State Park from July 3-5 in celebration of America250 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Bureau of Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">No arrests were made within the Fourth of July Celebration event footprint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Outside of that area, officers with the Downtown Public Safety Center cited or detained 19 juveniles and arrested five adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/fireworks-thrown-pittsburgh-police-work-break-up-crowd-150-juveniles-east-liberty\/7QKFMFJWKRHTZG4TTXFZDB7OLM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/fireworks-thrown-pittsburgh-police-work-break-up-crowd-150-juveniles-east-liberty\/7QKFMFJWKRHTZG4TTXFZDB7OLM\/\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Fireworks thrown as Pittsburgh police work to break up crowd of 150 juveniles in East Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Three firearms and a fake gun were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Medics responded to seven calls in North Shore and Point State Park. Of those seven calls, two people were taken to local hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh firefighters were working with members of the newly reactivated \u201cFireworks Task Force,\u201d which also includes police officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The task force\u2019s goal is to enforce safety regulations and respond to complaints made about the use of illegal fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">That team responded to 17 calls on July 3, 57 calls on July 4 and 17 calls on July 5. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Public Safety Department officials are sharing the numbers from a busy Fourth of July Weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,757],"class_list":["post-236969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wpxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}