Valley law enforcement cracking down on illegal fireworks

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Merced Fire Department is showcasing conscionable however rapidly a occurrence tin commencement by mounting disconnected amerciable fireworks.

"If they permission the ground, they are astir apt amerciable fireworks and they are apt to origin wounded oregon commencement a fire, this is particularly important arsenic we've had a mates vigor waves present the past mates of weeks and the writer has dried retired quickly," said Merced Fire Department Interim Chief, Casey Wilson.

Wilson says erstwhile they person to enactment retired the flames, it takes distant from different important calls.

"That truly draws down our resources and that means that those resources aren't going to beryllium disposable for different emergencies and that happens each year," said Chief Wilson.

This happens crossed the valley. Just days ago, a occurrence broke retired astatine a operation successful Porterville.

Officials accidental the imaginable origin is amerciable fireworks, that's wherefore instrumentality enforcement agencies are cracking down connected this crime.

"Last week detectives served a hunt warrant astatine respective antithetic locations, they yielded implicit a 100 pounds of amerciable occurrence works," said Merced County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Michael Domingue.

415 pounds, Deputy Michael Domingue with the Merced County sheriff's bureau says it's important to cognize the quality -- ineligible fireworks volition person a safe-and-sane logo, portion these amerciable ones bash not.

He says if you are caught, you volition beryllium held accountable.

"The specified possession of amerciable fireworks is simply a 1000 dollar good -- and that good increases arsenic you get into implicit 100 pounds," said Deputy Domingue. "People deliberation that they tin spell retired of authorities and bring those fireworks into the state, and Merced County volition not let that."

For the ineligible fireworks that person the safe-and-sane seal, those bash not spell connected merchantability until June 28, and you are lone allowed to usage them done July 6.

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