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Live fireworks aren't a noise complaint....it's a 911 call and callers would/should have been redirected.
Your absolutely correct depending on how you call 311. If its a noise complaint complaint (indicated in the article) its a service request. If its "active" firework complaint is a transfer over to 911. There is no data collected on that in Open Data for 911 transfers, so the media is not to quick to to do research on the numbers on this. However, past firework complaints can also be filed, still taken like noise complaints, all found on in open data.
Yeah, people are sometimes confused about which one to call for fireworks, maybe because it's a double whammy of both "festive" noise and dangerous explosives.
Fireworks generally start around 9pm, I think. Maybe you go to bed that early, but I don't.
I do very much inveigh against illegal fireworks, however, and think everyone should - it's awful hearing about the accidents of people seriously injuring themselves.
I get as sick and tired of disrespectful and insensitive noisy people as anyone else, and when I come home, I want peace and quiet, especially when it's been a difficult day or I have to get up early the next morning. But Super Bowl, Fourth of July, Etc., and all the hurrahs and fireworks that come with them, are special occasions and long-standing traditions. What kind of world would it be if certain times to which we as a community or nation attach historical and personal significance cannot be recognized and enthusiastically--even loudly enjoyed and celebrated? Life is too hard and stressful not to be able to have some high-volume fun once in a while. Whether it is convenient or desirable for me to hear it on a particular Holiday, I have no intentions of complaining about fire crackers, cheering and even loud music and BBQs going on in honor of a special day or event. It's the ones who have no regard for others about blasting music, stomping and slamming things around overhead, yelling in the streets, and making an overall neighborhood nuissance of themselves at any and all hours as a regular routine for which I have no tolerance whatsoever. The rude indifference and failure to consider that they don't live here by themselves is incomprehensible to me, but at the same time, those who, no matter what the date, insist upon never ever being disturbed by anything other than crickets at night must realize that they don't live here by themselves either. If silence is that essential to your survival and peace of mind, then you probably shouldn't be living in a city.
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Same thing with Super Bowl parties. Can you imagine if you have to work in the morning and people are being extremely loud in your building?
If one has to work, then hearing fireworks at 03:00 in the morning is not exactly welcomed. Am thinking some people (not mentioning any names) don't work, otherwise can't understand why they would think such behavior would be ok.
I laughed out loud
In the Washington Heights neighborhood where I stay it was not too bad. It was as noisy as any other night.
I tend to look forward to July 5th when the news reports stories about some Darwin Award candidates who blow off their fingers or lose their eye sight from handling dangerous and illegal fireworks.
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