Public health and safety leaders in Western New York remind people every year about the dangers of at-home fireworks displays ...

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Fireworks permitted: Wood-stick and wire sparklers with no more than 100 grams of pyrotechnic composition; other hand-held or ground-based sparkling devices which are non-explosive and non-aerial ...

Allowed: Ground-based or handheld sparkling devices (including cylindrical fountains, cone fountains, and wood sparklers/dipped sticks), party poppers and snappers.

With the 4th of July less than a month away fireworks learn what you can do and can't do in regards to shooting off fireworks. Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall joined me on WJON.

A ban on metal sparklers went into effect Jan. 1 in Nebraska. Wood sparklers are still allowed.

Sparklers, hot enough to burn some metals, are the No. 1 cause of fireworks-related injuries, warns the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In recent years some cities have banned sparklers on the ...

In Connecticut, which legalized wooden sparklers in 2000, almost all pyrotechnics are still banned except for sparklers and non-aerial fountains.

Devices permitted under the law include a cylindrical fountain, which shoots a shower of colored sparks from the ground, a cone fountain, which holds the same effect as a cylindrical fountain, and a ...

Though the sparklers that would be sold in New York would be wood, he questioned if they too could cause the same results. “One thousand sparklers blew a toilet into hundreds of pieces,” he said.

Fireworks permitted:Wood-stick and wire sparklers with no more than 100 grams of pyrotechnic composition; other hand-held or ground-based sparkling devices which are non-explosive and non-aerial ...

With the fourth of July less than one week away, officials are issuing a friendly reminder to make sure fireworks remain fun and not fatal.