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One Utah city bans aerial fireworks for Pioneer Day hoping it ‘sends a message to the Legislature’

Cottonwood Heights’ City Council is banning residents from discharging aerial fireworks within city borders — a move Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore said he hopes will serve as a message to the Legislature that municipalities need more local control over the issue. The ban, approved late Tuesday, came in response to firework-related blazes across the Salt Lake Valley over Independence Day, including three fires that burned in Cottonwood Heights.

 

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