2008 Consumer Fireworks Safety PSA

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) takes aim at consumer fireworks. View the latest public service announcement, featuring Dan Doofus, urging people not to use consumer fireworks because they are too dangerous. Fireworks are responsible for thousands of fires and injuries each year. On Independence Day in a typical year, more U.S. fire are reported than on any other day. The Alliance to Stop Consumer Fireworks is coordinated by NFPA.

Visit http://www.nfpa.org/fireworks for more information.

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[fireworks76]

Here is a suggestion. Give away all your freedoms. Stay at home with the blinds pulled and never go outside or live life at all. Make people have a license and "proper training" for everything. Celebrating the Fourth of July as we see fit should be a crime as well as thinking and acting for ourselves. In fact, lets just put all of our faith in the government and trained professionals. They have nothing but the best intentions, right? This is crazy.

[AnthonyUK]

Consumer fireworks used properly according to their instruction labels generally don't cause injury or harm. Only misuse or abuse of consumer fireworks causes serious injury harm or property damage, and don't think banning them from sale works because it would push the trade underground to an illegal blackmarket in unsafe unregulated import fireworks which would injure or kill the user and or people watching them.

[MentalLemur]

Ok how many people annually get injured, hundreds? Maybe a couple thousand? How many injured by cars including lots of children annually? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Does that mean we ban cars because idiots sometimes misuse them? Hell no. These people suck the life out of every fucking thing we do, I live in NJ and I go to PA for fireworks, fuck these laws. They take the fun out of hunting, guns, fireworks, and if I sat here for a bit longer, I could think of tons more.

[chipethecat]

@AnthonyUK like in ohio and other states!

[TehFunnehMann]

@fireworks76 I have a suggestion, since fireworks are likley to cause fires to homes, find an open field to use fireworks.

[Thinker297]

Notice how they didnt say CONSUMER fireworks cause half of the fires every 4th of july this is all a lie

[Farenheit4051]

Don't use the stove. It's not worth the risk.

[computerfreaq17]

Don't be a doofus! Don't watch this shit of a crap video and be actually smart about fireworks! Because we actually have something that the NFPA doesn't have! A brain! We SHOULD know how to handle fireworks, and if we don't, then then we shoulden't use them anyway!

[LandmineLuv]

How 'bout this: I shoot off my own fireworks and leave bathing my calico to professionals.

[acmedata]

@fireworks76 See you in the E.R.