Daily News | Why you may not be as annoyed by fireworks in Philly this Fourth of July
The one upside to inflation for West Philadelphia resident Donna Hillhouse is that she suspects people are no longer able to afford fireworks.Hillhouse was walking Thursday morning to her car, a few steps away from the 100 block of South Alden Street, which two years ago had the highest rate of official complaints to police about fireworks of any block in the city: 40 in June of that year alone.
She recalled hearing fireworks all that summer, in the teeth of the pre-vaccine pandemic and protests over a Minneapolis police officer’s murder of George Floyd. They exploded until 3 a.m. sometimes, she said. They are pretty to see, she said, but maybe they shouldn’t be going off all the time. She’s right about hearing fewer of them this year. In 2022, there’s been a massive dip in fireworks complaints to police across the city. According to Philadelphia Police Department data, there were 294 firework complaints between May 29 and June 28. Go back to the June before, and that number was 1,123. In the turbulence ofThere’s no way of knowing if fewer complaints means fewer people are lighting fireworks.
In 2020, nearly all of the city’s attractions were shut down as COVID-19 spread. Primed with stimulus money, some revelers dropped hundreds of dollars on more powerful fireworks Pennsylvanians have had legal access to since a state law was enacted in 2017 that allowed devices with up to 50 milligrams of explosive material.
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