More than three dozen people suffered various injuries from fireworks in Lincoln over the Fourth Of July weekend. Chief Fire Inspector Bill Moody tells KLIN News that’s the most since the early 80’s when fireworks were restricted from ten days to two.
“I’m hoping this is just an anomaly this year. It did fall on the weekend, people are more active on the weekend,” Moody says. “We’ll watch that in years to come and make sure we can do some education prior to the Fourth and keep those injury numbers down a little bit.”
Moody says three of the injuries were traumatic and the rest were treated and released. He says most of the injuries were in the 11-19 year old age group followed by 6-10 year olds.