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Amid frenzy of illegal fireworks, a single ticket given By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
The Fourth of July in Lawrence: As they have for decades, city residents celebrated the holiday by shooting off all manner of Roman candles, cherry bombs, bottle rockets and fiery fountains. Most of those fireworks are illegal in Lawrence.
Police responded to more than 100 calls Thursday night about the booms, whistles and bright lights that rattled and illuminated the city’s neighborhoods. They wrote one ticket. More than 10 years after city commissioners enacted a sweeping ban on most forms of fireworks within city limits, Lawrence residents continue to put flame to
fuse in celebration of U.S. independence, with some seeming to believe that fireworks are legal, or at least tolerated, in certain areas of the city. For some residents, it’s fun. For others, it’s noisy and dangerous. But police and city officials say that with fireworks so closely Please see TICKET, page 2A
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It is basically the compromise that the community has ended up with that doesn’t make anyone very happy. But I don’t know of a better, cheaper solution.” — Lawrence City Manager David Corliss
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Hundreds of entities claim exemption from gun law By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
ONLINE: See documents showing entities taking the exemption at LJWorld.com
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NICK CESARE, A GRADUATE OF FREE STATE HIGH SCHOOL and a junior at Haskell Indian Nations University, will head out next week for a second summer of being a hotshot firefighter.
Local firefighter heading back out with hotshot crew, even after Arizona deaths fires with one of the elite, specialized hotshot groups for three months last year. Much of America may He’s been waiting since have learned about “hotthen until the day he could shot” firefighter crews return: this coming Monfor the first time this past day. weekend, when 19 memAnd though he’s been bers of one such crew died carefully watching and in a wildfire in Arizona. reading about this week’s But Nick Cesare of tragedy, he says, there’s no Lawrence first heard of the doubt he’s going back out hotshot crews last sumthere. He’ll be returning to mer. That’s when he joined his group, based in Logan, one. Utah, until October. Cesare, a 22-year-old “I guess you just kind of junior at Haskell Indian realize that you still kind Nations University and a of have a job that you have 2009 Lawrence Free State to do,” Cesare said. “And graduate, fought wildin a way, you’re kind of re-
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The elites Cesare joined the Wakarusa Township Fire Department when he was 18. In spring of 2012, he was plucked from a training
class at Haskell to join the U.S. Forest Service’s Logan Hotshots — one of around 100 hotshot crews in the United States that fight on the front lines to contain wildfires. The Forest Service has an office at Haskell and offers temporary jobs each summer for students there, said Elaine Kiefer, the office’s clerk. A few of those jobs are in firefighting, and a few Haskell stuPlease see HOTSHOT, page 2A
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specting them by continuing to do that job.” Cesare said he’s been fascinated by fire since he and his dad stopped on the way to a Little League game to watch crews battle a blaze at an apartment building when he was 7 years old. That’s when he decided to become a firefighter, and he hasn’t wavered since.
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TOPEKA — More than 400 cities, counties, libraries, hospitals and organizations have notified the state that they have exempted themselves for at least six months from the new law that expanded the concealed carry of guns, according to records obtained by the Lawrence Journal-World. That means thousands of buildings and facilities across the state — from city halls to swimming pools — will remain off limits until at least Jan. 1, 2014, to guns held by those with conState Sen. cealed carry licenses. And in notifying the at- Forrest Knox, torney general’s office, R-Altoona, desome officials expressed fended the new displeasure with the law law expanding concealed carry that took effect Monday. “ … this unfunded man- that he chamdate reflects a lack of un- pioned through derstanding of the essential the Legislature. functions of local government and exacerbates public safety problems,” said Steven Opat, Geary County attorney. David Lybarger, chairman of the board of directors of the Anderson County Hospital, said, “Carrying of concealed weapons poses risks to staff and patients and could interfere with our ability to provide care in a timely manner.” But state Sen. Forrest Knox, R-Altoona, defended the law he championed through the Legislature. “The average Kansan gets it,” Knox said. Please see GUNS, page 2A
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