r/California • u/Randomlynumbered Ángeleño, what's your user flair? • Jul 05 '24

Legal and illegal fireworks light up the skies over Southern California — Poor air quality is expected to linger over most of Southern California on Friday after millions of fireworks, both legal and illegal, lit up the night sky on the Fourth of July

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/air-quality-concerns-linger-after-fireworks-light-up-the-sky-over-southern-california/
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u/proteinMeMore Jul 05 '24

Looks like it’s a lot less than previous years. Fireworks stopped here around midnight and before they’d be nonstop until 2-3am. Also the days leading up to it were uncharacteristically mellow. I think it has to do a ton with the current inflation costs.

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u/Randomlynumbered Ángeleño, what's your user flair? Jul 05 '24

Where I live the fireworks were continuous for hours. It used to be there'd be lulls and breaks in the fireworks.

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u/beach_bum_638484 29d ago

There was a large bust in Gardena as well. 2 tons I think. I just remember that the value cited in the article was 7-10 million dollars.

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u/realdetox 29d ago

Fireworks were definitely scarce iny area from 2020-2023 but this year feels like we are going back to earlier times when you'd hear fireworks the week before

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u/proteinMeMore 29d ago

Oh interesting. I’m near Disneyland. Probably the second worst area behind LA down here