{"id":113193,"date":"2026-01-06T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113193\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:58:07","slug":"new-years-eve-fireworks-activity-keeps-city-police-and-firefighters-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113193\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve fireworks activity keeps city police and firefighters busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Despite fireworks being illegal within city limits, hundreds of explosive displays lit up the sky across Corpus Christi at the stroke of midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the Molina neighborhood captured the widespread celebrations that defied the city&#8217;s fireworks ban. Police responded to more than 300 fireworks calls throughout the evening, though the number of citations issued has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi Fire Department also had a busy night responding to fireworks-related incidents. On New Year&#8217;s Eve, firefighters were called to two structure fires, two fence fires, 10 trash fires and 12 grass fires, all caused by fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>One citation was issued in connection with one of the structure fires.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Despite fireworks being illegal within city limits, hundreds of explosive displays lit up the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-113193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}