You guys don’t use fireworks at new years?
Yes, but it’s generally professional shows or just a few at midnight. On the fourth it’s like half the neighborhood setting them off from dusk to 11ish.
“Inflammable means flammable? What a country!”
Found out today two neighbors had injuries or damage from other people. Teens shot fireworks at one guy, and another had her window shattered we hope from a firework and not a stray bullet. God damn I hate that holiday.
are these numbers a sum from like 30 years? or made up? because they seem unbelievably high to be yearly averages
https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Fireworks
For 2023, CPSC received reports of eight deaths and an estimated 9,700 injuries involving fireworks. Out of the eight deaths, five were associated with firework misuse, two with a device malfunction, and one involves unknown circumstances.
I’m actually more amazed at how sparklers were represented there. Compared to m80s and turbo tubes, they’re so benign
People think they are safer because they do not explode, they just sparkle!
And they give them to kids and drunk people who run around wildly with them.
They do not realize that sparklers are basically sticks of shitty thermite, burning at 2000 F.
If you had a candle or even a piece of kindling set on fire, and were waving it around willy nilly and bumped into someone, it’d hurt for a bit, but you could probably treat it with cold water, a minor burn.
Two fucking thousand degrees?
Different story.
Yeah, let your grasses dry a bit more so there isnt any lameass smoldering. We want a full blown fire boys /s