Many people in Metropolitan cities are furious at how disturbing the uptick of nightly fireworks is, especially late at night, and are wondering why fireworks are being used when Independence Day is just around the corner.
What We Know:
- The uptick of fireworks that have been occurring for months has brought angry members of communities together to address the issues of the disturbances. Knowing that the Fourth of July is coming up soon, people are wondering what the occasion is for the early roaring of fireworks.
- Like many would do, people got the police involved in hopes of them putting an end to the fiasco. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to know specifically where the fireworks are being set off and the police would need to see the culprit with the explosives. So, communities got their local officials involved to solve the problem.
- In Lehigh Valley county, residents of Allentown neighborhoods have filed complaints to their officials about the disturbances. As a result, Pennsylvania’s Democratic State Reps. Mike Schlossberg, Peter Schweyer, and Robert Freeman, who are co-sponsors of a 2019-2020 Republican-proposed bill that contains laws on the use of fireworks, are working to reintroduce legislation to modify the new fireworks laws.
Whose turn is it to randomly shoot off fireworks in their neighborhood tonight?
— Lehigh Valley with Love (@LVwithLove) June 15, 2020
- On the Upper West Side of New York, there have been complaints regarding the use of fireworks between midnight and 3 a.m. On Twitter, Upper West Siders spoke about how the eruption of the fireworks has negatively impacted their lives.
- “As someone who gets woken up by them and needs to plan walks in the evening for my anxious dog around them, I can confirm there are more of them and they are far more sophisticated than last year,” Charlotte Morrison wrote, who captured the disturbance on her phone.
- Similar to Allentown residents, Upper West Siders have found no luck in calling the police, since they are not able to locate where the fireworks are coming from.
Baltimore, Oakland, San Francisco, and other cities are facing similar problems.
