{"id":348685,"date":"2026-06-24T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:40:08","slug":"fireworks-stands-open-for-the-4th-of-july-celebrate-but-be-aware-of-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348685\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks stands open for the 4th of July celebrate but be aware of the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Fireworks stands are open ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, but there are rules residents need to know before they light up.<\/p>\n<p>While fireworks are legal to purchase, setting them off inside city limits is illegal. Those caught doing so can face thousands of dollars in fines.<\/p>\n<p>This past New Year&#8217;s Eve, police received 81 calls for fireworks that night, including reports of 2 structure fires, 2 fence fires, 10 trash fires and 12 grass fires \u2014 all caused by fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, fireworks stands are allowed to operate from June 24 to July 5. They can also open from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1.<\/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 Fireworks stands are open ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, but there are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-348685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348685","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=348685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}