The assignment - do not need the ER this #July4th pic.twitter.com/wUa0Ye9HEX
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) July 1, 2023
After a three-year absence due to the pandemic, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission returned to the National Mall in Washington last week to put on a demonstration of how not to use fireworks. They used styrofoam mannequins to show us the most common ways people get injured during the Fourth of July (and then they picked up all the pieces before they left). Last year, eleven people were killed by fireworks, and 10,200 people were injured badly enough to go to the emergency room. If Elon Musk's latest tweaks to the algorithm prevent you from seeing the video, you can watch the carnage here.
USCPSC coming through solid on this July weekend.
— Kenny_Blankenship (@Blank3nship89) July 1, 2023
Lifehacker has a list of the latest fireworks safety tips, including warnings about how to supervise children and pets. Besides all that, the the USCPSC Twitter feed is a pretty handy reference for the latest product recalls, and they can be quite funny at times, too. -Thanks WTM!
Then I thought about how many people will turn to firearms as a "safer alternative." But that's ridiculous; people will just ADD firearms to their fireworks.