fireworks

Here’s a fact that should shock absolutely no one. A survey conducted by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission indicates that most fireworks-related injuries take place during or around the Fourth of July holiday festivities.

You can now buy and discharge fireworks in Bossier City. Today through July 5th, you can set off your fireworks between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. Tents that have popped up all over town earlier this week are stocked today and ready for business ...

It's now legal to buy, sell and discharge fireworks in Shreveport. They went on sale at noon today, but won't go on sale in Bossier City until Thursday.

July 4th of July is coming up soon. Celebrate our Independence Day with these fireworks displays in the Shreveport-Bossier area.

We touched on it a bit last week...but it's worthy of a reminder as we head into New Year's. Shreveport police say...celebrate with fireworks, not firearms. Police stress that it's against the law to discharge any type of firearm in the city limits...

Fireworks are already being sold and allowed to be discharged in Shreveport.  That started at noon on December 15th.  In Bossier City, fireworks can't be sold or discharged for the upcoming holiday until Friday, the 23rd.  You can shoot off fireworks in Shreveport until 10 p...

The fireworks ban is still in effect in Shreveport and Bossier City.

Despite the city-wide ban on the sale and use of Class-C fireworks, the professional fireworks show planned for Saturday night's Shreveport/Bossier Captains baseball game will go on.  Here's a news release we received today from the team's front office:

A ban on the sale and use of Class-C fireworks remains in effect -- at least through tomorrow -- in Shreveport, Bossier City, and most of Bossier Parish. But Shreveport Fire Chief Brian Crawford says there have been instances of people violating that ban.

The Shreveport Police and Fire Department’s Prevention Division announced plans to enforce the ban on the sale and discharge of Consumer 1.4 g Class C fireworks within the City of Shreveport.