The police and fire chief of Salinas City suggested that safe and sane fireworks should be
banned, if this suggestion is approved by the council, then all fireworks will be illegal in
the city.
With the increasing of the fireworks in the city, hidden danger of the public safety is also
increasing, The police department and fire department says that they don’t have enough
manpower and money to enforce the current fireworks ban, since people always use illegal kind
of fireworks where the safe fireworks are allowed to set off, we don’t have effective method
to distinguish the safe fireworks from the illegal ones.”It’s not fair for the elderly
people, children and pets, since their happy festival is ruined by the dangerous fireworks,
we need a clean and safe city！”said by one of the councilman.
There are also some speakers claim that they don’t agree with the suggestion on banning of
safe and sane fireworks, it is like punishing kid and the youth, they said that the
government should have the ability to provide services to the public.
The council didn’t make a final decision yet, they said they will held a special meeting to get more information from the public in a few weeks.