Sacramento Metro Fire responded to 160 blazes over the holiday this year – a 48% increase over last year – and eight people were injured by illegal fireworks.
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If Sacramento is anything like Modesto, it sounds like a war zone on the 4th and the days leading up to it. The cops are not going to race from house to house arresting people for setting off fireworks. You might get a ticket or arrested if they happen to turn the corner and see you setting them off in the middle of the road, but that's about it.
It's funny, but in California where damned near anything that throws a spark or makes a boom is illegal, it's a constant barrage of noise but here in Tennessee where damned near everything as far as fireworks goes is legal, I've heard them exactly once and that was my neighbors across the road setting them off for their young grandchild right after they moved here.
Lafayette has a display every year, but I've yet to go to it.
