Fireworks Are Especially Dangerous During Drought. Here’s How To Use Them Safely.
Friday, July 2, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
In this July 2, 2015 photo, Maria Marquez and her granddaughter Yaritza Pizano, 4, run inside for cover as fireworks burst in front of their home in the community of Okieville, on the outskirts of Tulare, Calif.
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Bangs, pops and crackles are familiar sounds in the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, with fireworks being set off in streets throughout California communities.
But while fireworks that have the California Fire Marshal’s “Safe and Sane” seal are legal, that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily safe.
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Orchestra members Rodney Sauer (left), Britt Swenson (front) and David Short (right) rehearse music for the screening of “All Quiet on the Western Front” as the silent film runs on a screen on the wall. The musicians synchronize the music to the action in the film.
Since the early 1990s, the five-member Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra has been setting the musical scene for silent films in Colorado and across the country.
“I came across a large collection of
silent film music at the University of Colorado that had just been donated there, and started looking through it and realized that there was this whole repertoire of music that had been used in silent film orchestras,” said Rodney Sauer, founder of the Louisville-based orchestra. “It had pretty much been ignored since 1929.”
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Fire scientists have a message for anyone celebrating Fourth of July in the western U.S. Skip the fireworks this year. More than 100 researchers say drought and dry weather have turned the region into a tinderbox, and a bottle rocket spark could set it off. Sam Brasch of Colorado Public Radio reports.
SAM BRASCH, BYLINE: Philip Higuera teaches fire ecology at the University of Montana. He likes to project a graph showing the start date for U.S. wildfires.
PHILIP HIGUERA: The Fourth of July sticks out like a just super-sore thumb. When I show it to students in my classes, everybody kind of chuckles.
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