Always play it safe with fireworks
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The Honolulu Fire Department recommends:
- Using fireworks bought only from licensed retail outlets.
- Reading and following all warnings and instructions on packages.
- Making sure people are out of range.
- Lighting fireworks on smooth, flat surfaces away from buildings, dry vegetation and flammable materials.
- Having a garden hose and/or bucket of water ready in case of fire.
Firecrackers have been on sale on O'ahu since Saturday, and sales will continue through 9 p.m. tomorrow. Firecrackers can be ignited only from 1 to 9 p.m. tomorrow, under city ordinance.
On O'ahu, 75 fireworks permits for purchase of 5,000 firecrackers per permit had been sold as of yesterday, the city reported. Last year by July 3, 89 permits had been sold.
It is illegal to:
- Possess or use aerial fireworks.
- Remove or extract fireworks contents.
- Throw ignited fireworks from a moving vehicle.
- Set off fireworks near healthcare and animal care facilities, in parks, cane fields, public ways or places of worship, or within 500 feet of any Waikiki hotel.
- Sell or give fireworks to minors. (Minors may use fireworks only under supervision of an adult with parental permission.)
