ATF warns Pennsylvanians about the dangers of using illegal fireworks ahead of New Year's Eve

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Philadelphia Field Office shares tips on how to tell illegal explosives from legal, commercial fireworks.
Los Angeles Magazine

LAPD’s Bad Guesstimate Caused the Destructive Fireworks Explosion in South L.A.

The June 30 detonation caused damage for blocks (Photo by Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The June 30 explosion that devastated a South Los Angeles neighborhood and injured 17 people ...
Modesto Bee

California ‘loophole’ helped man behind Esparto fireworks land explosives permits

California law allowed a pyrotechnics CEO with a felony to hold state licenses. Devastating Pyrotechnics lacked local permits and imported restricted chemicals. Federal-state regulatory gaps raise ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Fireworks stolen from Chicago-Detroit train recovered, officials say

DETROIT (WLS) -- Most of the 32 cases of commercial-grade fireworks, believed to have been stolen in transit from a Chicago to Detroit train shipment, have been recovered, federal authorities said ...
Capital Public Radio

Yolo County supervisors say staff were aware of Esparto fireworks storage years before deadly explosion

Years before a deadly explosion at a fireworks storage facility rocked the town of Esparto, some Yolo County employees knew fireworks were being stored on site. The information was disclosed by the ...
KEYT

Task force to look at loopholes in regulations after Esparto fireworks explosion

ESPARTO, Calif. (KCRA) — As investigators continue to look into what happened at an Esparto fireworks storage facility that led to a series of explosions and the deaths of seven people, experts are ...
ABC7

Fireworks removed from East LA home, prompting school evacuations

EAST LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A cache of fireworks was seized from a home in East Los Angeles Monday, prompting precautionary evacuations of two nearby schools. Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, ...