Collins, a research associate at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, "parents need to remain vigilant and try to prevent injuries that occur just because of the excitement: more people in the home, people cooking, and playing outdoors in warm weather." A version of this article...
Even Ohio recently passed a bill allowing consumers to set off firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles, and other consumer-grade fireworks. Montana and Nebraska passed similar bills in 2021 (Egan, 2021). Massachusetts is currently the only state to completely ban fireworks for consumers, and ...
Fireworks industry professionals have noted a shortage in fireworkscaused by pandemic-related manufacturing slowdownsand trade disruptions. Youngstown, Ohio-based Phantom Fireworks, the country’s largest consumer-based retail fireworks company, urged customers to buy their fireworks sooner rather than later...