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4th laws try to calm celebrations By Kirk Boxleitner
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While Arlington and Marysville encourage citizens to celebrate the Fourth of July, the cities’ police officers and firefighters want to make sure those who use fireworks do so safely and legally. Arlington allows fireworks to be sold from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, through Friday, July 4, whereas Marysville allows sales from noon to 11 p.m. on June 28 and from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. from Sunday, June 29, through July 4. Marysville residents may discharge fireworks only between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. July 4, while Arlington residents may discharge fireworks between 9 a.m. and midnight that day. Neither city allows residents to discharge fireworks any other day, outside of New Year’s, and both cities limit their legal fireworks to Class C, or “safe and sane” fireworks. Native American reservations may sell fireworks that do not conform to those
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laws, but such fireworks must be detonated on reservation lands. The fireworks stands of “Boom City” on the Tulalip Tribal Reservation provide a lighting and detonation area on site for customers. Security personnel will monitor the area to ensure that children age 12 and younger have adults age 18 or older present. Fireworks that are illegal off tribal lands include bottle rockets, skyrockets, missiles and firecrackers. M-80s and larger, as well as dynamite and any improvised, homemade or altered explosive devices, such as tennis balls, sparkler bombs or cherry bombs, are likewise illegal. Anyone who possesses or uses such illegal devices can expect to be charged with a felony. State Fire Marshal Charles Duffy is reminding Washingtonians that the purchase of fireworks over the Internet is illegal. Fireworks must be purchased from a licensed retail fireworks stand during the legal sales period. SEE 4TH, PAGE 2
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Fredric Sicade sells fireworks on the Tulalip Reservation. Laws say some of the fireworks sold there must be detonated there and not in the cities of Marysville or Arlington.
After Oso, flood rescue practice has more meaning BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
ARLINGTON — Emergency response agencies from Olympia to Snohomish County used the Arlington Airport as the command center for a regional aviation exercise June 23 that had been planned before the Oso slide, but which was impacted by its aftermath. Seattle Fire Battalion Chief R.R. Mondragon, who supervises his department’s Aviation Special Operations Team, explained that at least 10 aircraft and more personnel than he could keep track of were representing the sheriff ’s departments of Snohomish, King and Pierce counties,
as well as the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, the Washington State Patrol, the FBI, the DEA and Airlift Northwest. “This morning we did communications tests for air to ground, and between the command and control centers in the region,” Mondragon said June 23. “This afternoon, we’ll be putting this comms through their paces in tactical exercises, with simulated hoist rescues.” Mondragon explained that Northwest Regional Aviation formed nine years ago to coordinate civilian, military, law enforcement and other emergency response assets, initially with an eye toward dealing with terrorism. The exercise
originally had been scheduled for March 24, but the Oso slide March 22 put its personnel in the position of dealing with the real thing, albeit not exactly how they’d planned. “One day after the slide, FEMA got a good look at Northwest Regional Aviation’s assets, right here at the airport,” Mondragon said. “As tragic as it was, responding to that slide allowed us to learn so much more about how to communicate and coordinate our resources effectively. After Oso, this was our airbase.” SEE OSO, PAGE 2