Comments about ‘Doug Robinson: Fire worries creating dud of a season’

More double standard city greed. I think most cities and their fire departments new the high risk and dangers of wild fire long before they started handing out business licenses to these fire works stands and should be held accountable for tier losses. Willful and intentional neglect to endanger a business venture is a law that not even cities can be indemnified from.

This wrongful neglect and action by the city not to stop the sales of fireworks is proof of their neglectful action for greed of sales taxes. The cities selling fireworks should be chastised and fined for endangerment of citizens homes and nearby fields. All sales taxes collected by them should be returned to the business owners who are facing damaging losses. The cities are allowing the sale of merchandise that cannot be used just to collect sales taxes and this is criminla and neglectful and deceitful.

Money greed makes many cities criminally negligent and its time this problem be addressed by the state legislators and some new laws to protect these regulated short term industrial investors just as they do for business outsourcing jobs to foreign nationals and foreign countries.

No trips to Evanston Wyo for fireworks this year The fines will be nasty for even a stray black cat. Even if you were able to dodge the law you can't use the stuff once you get it back to your neighborhood - not this year. Is it really that dry or is all this fire bubub the result of bad housing development? I think the latter. I can recall even drier years and fireworks were allowed in our neighborhoods. What you have now is hosing developments that are built right up into the oak brush and sage brush on mountain sides which is a dramatic evacuation scene waiting to happen in any dry year. The Herriman Fire, the Saratoga Springs fire and all the other big fires result in just some acres of burned sage brush and not homes if city planners would stop being allowed to push housing developments farther up the mountainsides. Deer winter range is destroyed as well - not from fire but from sub divisions.So now we have all this over hyped fire hysteria due to all the dramatic evacuation scenes being played out on the evening news.

There are plenty of neighborhoods where fireworks can be shot off, especially in Salt Lake. If people will just shoot off aerials, they will be fine. Aerials burn out long before they return to earth, there is nothing left of them about halfway down, so they pose almost no fire danger actually.

Some aerials are restricted.
Any aerial fireworks that shoot greater than 10 feet in height are banned within Milford city limits.