The neighborhood is quiet this morning.
As I drove home, yesterday, during the apex of celebratory pyrotechnics for our nation's 237th founding, it was amazing to me see so many of the fireworks and clearly, so many being illegal. In California, anything in the air can only be a legal establishment, school, city, sports event, etc., and driving through the San Gabriel valley lead me to surmise that school was still in session, or that we had close to 47 sports entities or cities celebrating our founding!
In Chino Hills, I witnessed the majority of homes displaying or setting off illegal fireworks. On one street alone, of the 14 parties, 11 set off illegal fireworks.
Arriving home in South Gate, while the neighbors were still doing their own displays, I have to say that six of nine parties used illegal fireworks.
If I, as a resident, could easily drive around southern California and view so many displays of illegal fireworks, I have to ask: what were our police and sheriff departments doing? All you had to do was to drive around, as I was doing and you could identify illegal pyrotechnics. Further, the booms continued well into the morning. This year was unlike any year before and I have to ask: where were our peace officers?
I know that dogs and cats go into hiding because of fireworks, I get that, but our peace officers?