America is running out of fireworks

[conuly]

Hallelujah.

Comments

[lilysea]

As an Australian, I am horrified by fireworks during summer.

Especially after multiple bushfires in the US were started by fireworks...

I mean, I dislike private fireworks year-round because the noise is bad for pets; wild animals; returned soldiers; and people with Anxiety or Autism

but setting them off when they could burn down towns seems the height of folly...

1 home destroyed, 12 damaged as Knolls Fire grows to 10,000 acres; thousands still under evacuation in Saratoga Springs

Officials providing updates on the Traverse Mountain blaze, which sparked home evacuations of neighborhoods in Lehi and Draper, all expressed some mixture of exhilarated praise for the efforts of first responders and weary frustration at the fact the blaze was ignited by illegal fireworks.

“This definitely was a preventable fire,” Lehi Fire Chief Jeremy Craft said. “Just a few seconds lit this fire off. … Fireworks were never allowed up here. This is a restricted area. Simply be respectful. Following the rules would’ve prevented this fire.”

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/28/draper-lehi-residents/

1 Injured, Homes Evacuated In San Francisco Potrero Hill Grass Fire Started By Fireworks
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/05/grass-fire-in-san-franciscos-potrero-hill-forces-evacuations/

Family loses everything in fire, say caused by fireworks
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/family-loses-everything-in-fire-say-caused-by-fireworks

[alexseanchai]

AndrewSolender has a tweet thread that's just screenshots of California fire department twitters saying how overwhelmed they are tonight

[conuly]

At least that's not a big worry here in NYC, indeed, we got a rainstorm after midnight that quieted everything down nicely.

[lightbird]

Especially after multiple bushfires in the US were started by fireworks...but setting them off when they could burn down towns seems the height of folly...

This is America in a nutshell, though.

[kengr]

Brush fires? Try forest fires.

It's only been a few years since an idiot teenager started the biggest forest fire in the state that year by setting off fireworks in a national forest.

Unfortunately for him, they were able to determine that it was started by fireworks and the he and his buddies were the only ones in the area at the time.

He's going to be in debt for decades trying to pay off what it cost to fight the fire.

[lilysea]

Brush fires? Try forest fires.

BUSHFIRES. Which is the Australian word for forest fires, our word for forest being bush...

Those devastating Australian fires in early 2020 that wiped out hundreds of homes? that killed hundreds of people from smoke inhalation? We called those bushfires.

Trust me, bushfire is NOT a minimizing word. Bushfire = MASSIVE devastation.

[conuly]

I forgot those were this year, I thought they were last year.

God, this year is the fucking worst.

[lilysea]

Yeah, there are people in Australia living in tents and caravans and on relatives couches because they lost their homes in the fires and then COVID delayed their rebuilding...