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M.G.L. Chapter 148
ALL FIREWORKS ARE ILLEGAL IN MASSACHUSETTS
Including, but not limited to:
Firecrackers
Spinners
Sparklers
Bottle Rockets
Aerial Fireworks, etc.
For more information, visit: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/leave-fireworks-to-the-professionals
Leave Fireworks to the Professionals. Fireworks are dangerous and they are illegal in Massachusetts for anyone without a professional license. It is illegal for private citizens to use, possess, or sell fireworks in Massachusetts, or to purchase them legally elsewhere and then transport them into the state.
The law prohibits any article designed to produce a visible or audible effect.
The Summer is a busy time for firefighters. They are supervising professional fireworks shows and responding to all types of fires and medical emergencies. In fact, the week of July 4th is one of the busiest times of the year for fires.
SPARKLERS ARE NO EXCEPTION
Source: Leave Fireworks to the Professionals | Mass.gov
Fireworks and sparklers are not safe, especially around children. Sparklers burn at temperatures of over 1,800° Fahrenheit. This is hotter than the melting point of glass! Children suffer some of the most severe burn injuries caused by sparklers.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said, “there were an estimated 1,600 emergency department-treated injuries associated with firecrackers and 900 with sparklers” in 2020. This accounted for almost 10% of all fireworks-related injuries that year. Of those 900 injuries from sparklers, 44% were to children under the age of 5.
In addition to causing injuries, sparklers are hot enough to cause fires -- even after they've been extinguished. In 2022, the unsafe disposal of sparklers caused a three-alarm fire in Dracut that displaced nine people.
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