This AM, we received the following, via E-Mail, from a couple of Bellingham citizens:
"Speaking of fireworks. We were awakened this morning with a continuous barrage of loud exploding fireworks. (York neighborhood) Did you hear it? Were the perpetrators identified?"
"My wife and I were awakened this morning, 9 April at 4:40 or so by a burst of fireworks lasting about 30 seconds. Sounded like it came from down the hill from us near Lincoln Creek park and ride. Starting early this year. Maybe someone got PO’d because you were collecting signatures Saturday at the market."
Certainly such flaunting of the existing Bellingham fireworks ordinance has nothing to do with the Fourth of July or New Year. Simply stated, such violation of the existing law is but one of many reasons why the time has come for Bellingham to join more than 50 other cities in Washington who ban the personal use of consumer fireworks. Please seek out and sign one of our hard-copy petitions to get an initiative to ban consumer fireworks on the ballot in November.
