TWO COMMUNITIES IN DARKE COUNTY, OHIO, ARE celebrating Independence Day without their expected fireworks displays. Earlier this week the Ohio State Fire Marshal office, acting on a tip, seized 2 tons of commercial fireworks from a pyrotechnician that had planned on putting on the public displays in Greenville and Ansonia.
The rockets were confiscated because they were not stored in an approved area (they were in a truck and a storage unit) and the vendor did not have the required permits to put on a display. State law requires all contraband fireworks and explosives to be destroyed, so they will not be returned to the owner.
WDTN-TV Ch.2, Dayton has the video report:
