Its Candy Cane Lane Parade and Winter Wonderland Christmas events have also been axed. “It was really becoming a burden on the community soliciting for fireworks when so many other good causes were also soliciting for their support,” said airport manager Barb Crayne.Ī $1 million hole in the Lynwood City Council’s budget caused the California town to end its tradition of Fourth of July fireworks. In Malden, Massachusetts, there will be no fireworks for the first time in years after the Malden Airport Board decided the money could be better spent elsewhere. Other fireworks shows were canceled amid lingering power outages from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic region caused by fierce storms spawned by record heat. Some localities that are on high fire alert due to heat and dry conditions have banned fireworks displays. Tight local budgets - as well as wildfire threats - have forced at least 100 communities from Tanglewood Park, North Carolina, to Half Moon Bay, California, to forego the traditional Fourth of July razzle dazzle. But 70 percent of those shows will be at private or corporate events in premier locations like the Hamptons, Malibu, Lake Tahoe and the Jersey Shore, according to Grucci. Fireworks suffered until 1976 when we celebrated the bicentennial and then they came back considerably,” he said.Ībout $217 million will be spent on an estimated 14,000 Fourth of July fireworks displays across America, a Grucci spokesman said.

“At that time, unfortunately, people were tending more to burn the flag than to wave it. “What we are seeing now in the fireworks industry is equivalent to what happened in the ‘70s,” said Philip Butler, vice president of Fireworks by Grucci, based in New York. One of America’s top fireworks firms said the industry, still suffering due to the nation’s economic woes, is experiencing its toughest times since the Vietnam War era when the country was divided over such flashy displays of patriotism. NEW YORK (Reuters) - As millions of Americans celebrate Independence Day on Wednesday, there are some whose holiday won’t be going off with a bang.

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