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New Yorkers fed up with Mayor Bill de Blasio's inaction in dealing with the noise caused by late-night fireworks that are being set off illegally throughout the city staged a protest outside Gracie Mansion on Monday. Motorists lined up along East End Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan around midnight late on Monday and honked their horns continuously hoping to get the message across to the mayor. 'If we cannot sleep, we will not let the mayor sleep,' New York City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, who addressed a crowd of protesters on Monday, said.

Unless you have been living on different planet, you should be fully aware that America is currently under attack. You have probably also read or overheard many reports of illegal fireworks and explosions that are currently taking place throughout many different US cities. If you do a google search for "fireworks complaints" you will find countless articles posted just in the last week or so. Most of these news reports are local, since local news is far more likely to have boots on the ground and residents reporting an accurate assessment as to what is actually going on. However, national...

The Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Sunday urged residents to not call 911 to report the skyrocketed use of illegal fireworks that have overwhelmed the city as some view them as a form of nonviolent protests. Americans in other cities have been kept up all through the night by the sound of booming fireworks for the past three weeks. New Yorkers, gripped with tension since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic and volatile clashes over police brutality, has discovered a new way to express their frustrations: setting off scores of booming fireworks into the wee hours of the morning...

It is not just fireworks, but Christmas lights and a host of other things we can do better here than they do over there. That said, with a proud history of observing July 4th by way of booms, bangs, and bright lights celebrating independence from King George, I am hesitant to make use of products sold by Communist China this year. Why was I not in years past? Black Cat. M-80. Silver Salute. Lady Fingers. Zebra. Dixie Boy. Here is the thing: We should develop a fireworks industry that puts Communist China to shame. Not that our military does not...

President Trump said Tuesday he’s planning to hold another Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall in Washington, one of the first big events he’s proposed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “On July 4, we will be doing what we had at the Mall,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “We’re going to be doing it. Last year was a tremendous success and I would imagine we’ll do it, hopefully I can use the term ‘forever.’ That was a great success.” Last year, Mr. Trump for the first time in his presidency delivered remarks on Independence Day on...

But Sydney's lord mayor Clover Moore said the fireworks would go ahead. Ms Moore said she shared the "deep sympathies" of those who had signed the petition, but the fireworks were planned 15 months in advance and most of the budget had already been spent. "We can't cancel the fireworks and even if we could, doing so would have little practical benefit," the lord mayor wrote on the petition's website. However, Australians who signed the Change.org petition said a firework display would be an "insult".

After the 9/11 attacks, we began to hear that cliche about how “the terrorists will have won” if we let ourselves become so consumed with fear that we no longer act rationally. Well, the future is now. That’s my reaction to that decision to cancel the annual Labor Day parade in South Plainfield because a guy left some fireworks in a bar in Sea Bright. When I got an email from the Governor’s Office Monday morning saying this year’s parade had been canceled, I figured it might be because of the weather. -snip- Nope. It soon turned out that the...

<p>A Middlesex County man is in police custody after several pipe bomb-like devices were found near the route of a Labor Day parade that the governor was set to attend Monday.</p> <p>Officials detained a man on Monday morning after they found “over half a dozen” devices on his large property near South Plainfield’s Labor Day Parade route, according to a senior law enforcement official with the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.</p>

PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. (KARK/CNN) - At least five people lost fingers the night of July 4 in what has been deemed a “fireworks war” in Arkansas, according to the sheriff’s office. Authorities with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office say a group of people shot fireworks at each other, deputies and their patrol cars and even ambulances coming to aid the injured in a “fireworks war” on the Fourth of July. "We've never experienced something to this scale,” said Lt. Cody Burk with the sheriff’s office. At least five people suffered hand injuries, some of which were described as severe. Burk...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Authorities say a family of four, including two children, are in the hospital after a major car fire that was sparked by a road rage shooting in north Harris County. The incident happened Thursday around 9:30 p.m. in the 1800 block of W. Mount Houston. Authorities say the father got into some sort of argument with the suspect. That suspect pulled out a gun, and the father tried to drive off. The gunman shot at the car, which set off fireworks in the vehicle, causing it to catch fire, deputies say. "Family had bought fireworks. It...

Wishing all a glorious 4th! So grateful that President Trump is our President.

Videos at the link...... FORT MILL, South Carolina (WCNC) - Crews battled a massive fire near two fireworks stores in South Carolina on the morning of July 4. It happened in a parking lot between the two stores. The York County sheriff tweeted that the fire sparked "in containers outside" one of the stores.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” is making some radical changes to the Fourth of July festivities that Washingtonians — and tourists from all around the nation and the world — have come to expect.HOW IS JULY FOURTH TYPICALLY CELEBRATED IN WASHINGTON?Every year, marching bands, drill teams, military units, floats and giant balloons participate in a mile-long parade that stretches along Constitution Avenue. The event starts at 11:45 a.m. EDT and takes about two hours. Another tradition is the free concert on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol that begins at 8 p.m. Then there’s the...

A Pennsylvania law passed in 2017 that finally allowed residents to buy aerial fireworks has increased both the number of booms and the corresponding noise complaints, sparking frustration among Lehigh Valley firefighters, police officers and residents. Allentown police officials said prior to the 2017 law, they would often respond to complaints by seizing aerial fireworks. But the law now permits powerful fireworks like bottle rockets and Roman candles, so there’s little police can do.... ...Fireworks are banned from being ignited within 150 feet of an occupied structure, even if no one is present at the time. Bans are also in...

OUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Police were stationed outside a fireworks business' corporate offices in Youngstown, Ohio, for hours after two bomb threats were called into Phantom Fireworks. The threats were made just hours after a tweet from President Trump, according to NBC affiliate WFMJ. Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Thanks to “Phantom Fireworks” and “Fireworks by Grucci" for their generosity in donating the biggest fireworks show Washington D.C. has ever seen. CEO's Bruce Zoldan and Phil Grucci are helping to make this the greatest 4th of July celebration in our Nations history!

Celebrating the end of 2018, with hope for 2019. It's been fireworks all year, so reasonable to go out with the same.

Railway police said 60 people died in a "freak accident" which happened when the sound of fireworks at the Dussehra festival on the outskirts of Amritsar made it impossible for people to hear the commuter train bearing down on them. At least 50 injured people were admitted to hospital. A witness said the train did not even sound its whistle as it sped past the site. "Why did authorities allow the fireworks display so close to the railroad track?'" he asked. Punjab's Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said he was rushing to Amritsar to supervise relief and rescue operations. "District authorities...

Justice Kavanaugh! Absolutely thilled! Fireworks - Beethoven's 9th Trump I WIN! - Nessun Dorma - Bruce Sledge

From sundown to midnight, Chandler, Arizona and the surrounding areas experienced a volume of illegal fireworks unlike anything I've seen. There were commercial skyrockets EVERYWHERE. I took the grandkids up on the roof and we saw quite a show.

The Fourth of July is good fun for fireworks-loving humans. But for Stella, a 5-year-old pit bull mix, it feels like the end of the world. Stella finds the noise of the fireworks so terrifying that “she pretty much spends the whole week in the bathtub,” her owner, Vlad, who declined to share his last name, tells The Post. So this year, the Bushwick resident is trying a natural chill pill for his pup: CBD-infused dog treats. “We bought them out of desperation, really,” he says. His girlfriend ordered the chicken-flavored treats, which contain a calming, non-psychoactive hemp extract, from...