illegal fireworks

Illegal fireworks lighting up the night sky over Boston has been keeping law enforcement busy this summer. With nearly 1,500 fireworks complaints to the Boston Police Department in the first week of June alone, Mayor Marty Walsh said last month fireworks were traumatizing residents. “Fireworks continue to be major safety and quality of life concern,” Walsh said July 2. “It’s…

With the coronavirus pandemic keeping people at home this summer, illegal sales of fireworks are expected to soar even higher than normal. But if you chose to set them off, it could cause you financial harm.

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn held a meeting yesterday via video conference call to address some of the concerns constituents have about fireworks continuously being set off across the city.

Police in Providence, Rhode Island, have arrested 14 people since the city formed a task force to crack down on illegal fireworks that have bedeviled cities across the country this summer. The department tweeted Saturday that six people were arrested Thursday and eight more on Friday. Police said they will “continue this enforcement indefinitely.” About a dozen officials from the…

Complaints of fireworks to Boston police are up 2,300% this year.