El Paso Fire Department Officials would like to wish the Citizens of El Paso a Safe and Happy New Year and would like to remind them that if they are planning to celebrate the New Year by using fireworks to please remember to keep them outside the city limits. The same laws that apply to and are enforced during the July 4th holiday are also in effect for the New Year Holiday and throughout the year.
If anyone is caught in possession of fireworks inside the City of El Paso, their fireworks will be confiscated and they will be issued a class C citation punishable by a fine not to exceed $500.00.
El Paso Fire Officials are asking the public to attend one of the many professional firework displays throughout the city and offer these firework injury facts.
More than 50 percent of firework injuries occur to children and teenagers.
The top three injury-causing fireworks are firecrackers, sparklers, and rockets
Children most often suffer burns, lacerations and eye injuries.
There were 9,200 emergency room-treated injuries associated with fireworks in 2006.
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