I didn't know you lived in my neighborhood, Mastador. You're lucky if they just fire them tonight. They start firing them off around here as soon as the firework stands open and will continue until they run out presumably in a few days. This process gets repeated at New Years.
It would be one thing to shoot them off if you have large piece of property, but this is a subdivision where the houses are ten feet apart. Last New Years some idiot knocked over their mortar & it went off in our front yard. It would've hit our house if we didn't have the tree out front. Like you said these aren't small ones, they're large mortars. I can't wait to move.
That's the issue, I don't begrudge people their enjoyment, hell fireworks are part of America, but the last few years as you noticed there is no common sense, courtesy or respect for others and the shear amount of dangerous activity is ridiculous. Anaheim voted to permit the safe and sane fireworks again, not that it mattered since the enforcement of the ban was an absolute joke.