your local fire hazard
Costa Mesa is unique in Orange County — for four days out of the year, one may actually buy fireworks. They may be discharged between 4:00 and 10:00 on the fourth of July, and that’s it. I realize that, to Tennesseans, this seems like an incredible infringement upon one’s civil liberties, but in our highly flammable state, it is a startling extravagance. There are, of course, many block parties, and people come in from out of town, buy fireworks, drive into the neighborhoods and set them off.
So we lit our fireworks, and then the baby needed some sleep, so I walked around the neighborhood with the little guy, who was vibrating with excitement. We don’t just get the fountains and the whistling petes; folks were shooting off rockets all over town, which was pretty exciting. Some are homemade, and some are surreptitiously imported. At one point we encountered some children with sparklers, which aren’t legal here, and the little guy stopped dead in his tracks, simultaneously delighted and terrified. We couldn’t walk past them until the sparklers burned out.
Maybe the little people will sleep in tomorrow….
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