As it has done numerous times before, the county’s largest fire district is asking the Snohomish County Council to adopt a ban on sale and discharge of fireworks in unincorporated areas.
The Snohomish County Fire District 1 Board of Commissioners last month unanimously adopted a resolution in support of a county-wide fireworks ban. Fire district officials plan to deliver the resolution when the County Council meets on June 15.
“We encourage citizens to join us at this meeting to voice support for a ban,” said Commissioner Jim McGaughey, Fire District 1 Board Chair.
The Snohomish County Council meeting begins at 9 a.m. June 15 in the Henry M. Jackson Board Room, Eighth Floor, Robert J. Drewel Building (Administration Building East), 3000 Rockefeller, Everett.
Fire District 1 first asked the Snohomish County Council for a ban in 2009, following what spokeswoman Leslie Hynes called the district’s “most devastating July 4 – we lost three houses in one night due to fireworks. We’ve done this every year since except 2011.”