Fireworks can bring plenty of oohs and aahs, but illegal ones can also bring handcuffs.
“Hopefully people realize that if they’re selling illegal fireworks, to stop, because we will seek out and try to make arrests,” said Cpt. Chris Vestal with the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District. One of those arrests come last Friday.
Investigators charged a man with two felonies and a misdemeanor for allegedly selling illegal fireworks, taking more than 100 pounds of them off the street. The hope is this fireworks arrest shows they mean business for those who set them off.
“Absolutely. Our fire season started a little early this year,” said fire investigator Paul Tualla, Fire Investigator with Metro Fire. “It’s marked on there, shoots flaming balls on to the packaging and, it has the potential of starting a house fire, grass fire, anything of that sort.”
Potential fires are something people in Sacramento County don’t want to see happen.