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A bill allowing Oahu residents to once again set off sparklers and other novelty fireworks legally to ring New Year’s Day and the Fourth of July was deferred by the City Council Public Safety and Economic Development Committee Tuesday due to technical reasons.
Council Public Safety Chairwoman Carol Fukunaga said she expects discussion on the bill to continue at next month’s committee meeting after language concerns with the bill are addressed.
Bill 5, introduced by Council members Ikaika Anderson and Ann Kobayashi, allows Oahu adults to buy a limited amount of sparklers and other novelty fireworks if they obtain $25 permits from the city.
As with the existing permits governing common firecrackers, there would be no limit to the number of permits purchased.
Sparklers, fountains and other novelties have been banned since the 2012 New Year’s celebration.

This year, the Honolulu Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary of promoting cultural and ethnic ties between Hawaii and Asia Pacific countries with a weekend of live performances, exhibits, a parade and the festival’s biggest fireworks show ever.
The festival, which takes place March 8-9 at the Hawaii Convention Center, Waikiki Beach Walk and Ala Moana Center, is free and open to the public.
On Tuesday, organizers celebrated a kick-off preview in Waikiki, which included a performance by Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble and the announcement of this year’s theme, “Jubilation, One Heart, One Pacific, One World.”
“I think (the theme) really captures the essence of the festival in bringing the people of the various cultures together and promoting cultural understanding amongst everyone,” said Lenny Yajima Andrew, Honolulu Festival spokesperson.
Highlights include the Friendship Gala at the Hawaii Convention Center on Saturday, featuring cultural entertainment by Honolulu Festival performers and cuisine from some of Oahu’s top restaurants. Proceeds support educational and cultural programs in Hawaii. On Sunday, ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro holds a benefit concert for Japanese children affected by an earthquake in 2011.
The festival concludes Sunday evening with two highly anticipated events: the Grand Parade, which starts at 4:30 p.m. along Kalakaua Ave., and the Nagaoka Fireworks Show, which starts at 8:30 p.m.
In honor of the festival’s 20th anniversary, organizers are promising the biggest and brightest pyrotechnic display yet with fireworks being shot from four barges off Waikiki Beach.
The fireworks show is going to be about 20 minutes (long) and it’s going to be spectacular.

From the sound of most Independence Days, it would be hard to conclude fireworks are illegal in Iowa.
Those licensed, legal displays illuminating our river valley are surrounded by unlicensed, illegal displays that draw the same oohs and aahs. Blasts resonate through neighborhoods the entire holiday week and beyond.
From the sound of it, enforcement of Iowa’s 70-year-old ban seems almost nonexistent.
In that context, the bill in the Iowa Senate legalizing fireworks deserves debate.
In every other context, this sneak attack on Iowa law needs much, much more vetting before Iowa’s fireworks ban is wiped off the books.
The bill would end the hypocrisy of forcing Iowans to buy fireworks out of state, then use them freely at home. But our reading suggests this will create much more enforcement for local police. The bill establishes penalties for selling to minors. It allows local fire chiefs to enact bans on particularly hot or dry days – not uncommon in summertime Iowa – then establishes offenses for violators. Enforcement, of course, falls to local police, who certainly need to be consulted before this becomes law.
Doctors, firefighters and moms and dads also may have something to say about this bill that popped out of a Senate committee last week. We’ve been to legislator forums, researched special interest wish lists and published hundreds of letters. We hadn’t heard a peep about legalizing fireworks.
So the bill’s quick approval in Senate committee during the final week of committee work startled us like bottle rocket.
Upon reflection, we expect legal Iowa fireworks would draw a lucrative business from across the Illinois border. Our safety concerns are tempered by the fact that recreational fireworks already seem eagerly embraced by Iowans.
But this proposal is far too provocative to be rushed into law. Fireworks have been illegal in Iowa since shortly after a dropped sparkler on Independence Day 1936 destroyed 20 businesses and left 100 people homeless in Remsen, Iowa. Five years before that, fireworks were blamed for a blaze that leveled five blocks of downtown Spencer.
Of course, lots has changed in those intervening seven decades. And Prophetstown and Maquoketa residents know that fireworks aren’t needed to ignite blazes that destroy downtowns.
Still Iowa can wait a year to gather more input before rushing through this life and limb-changing proposal.