PORT TOWNSEND — Unless they watch the fireworks at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend residents won’t get much bang out of the Fourth of July.
Fireworks have been banned in Port Townsend since 2003.
“However, there will be a permitted display in the bay,” said Tom Aumock, consulting fire code official for Jefferson County.
The event begins at sundown.
In Jefferson County, it’s another story, subject to state fireworks restrictions.
Only small “consumer fireworks” are allowed to produce visible combustible pyrotechnic effects but lacking the blast, flash and firepower of a bottle rocket, for example.
Firecrackers are out. So are M-80s, cherry bombs other large homemade blasting devices.
“Persons in possession or using illegal explosive devices can and should be charged with a felony,” states the Web site of the Office of the State Fire Marshal at www.wsp.wa.gov/fireworks.
Allowed by state law are sparklers, cylindrical fountains, cone fountains, ground spinners, flitter sparklers, mine shells, combination items, smoke devices, helicopter aerial spinners and roman candles.
