A total ban on firecrackers in Cebu?

[sharkey360]

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When a tradition goes wrong...

[walker]

limit use of fireworks and pyrotechniques to LGUs and LGU sanctioned activities for special events. total ban on individual use by citizens.

[sharkey360]

Cebu Provincial Police Director Erson Digal has urged local government units in the province to impose a total ban on firecrackers during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Ban the manufacture and sale of firecrackers, he said, to avoid firecracker-related injuries.
“Magsaba-saba lang gud ta (We should just make noise),” he said.

Yes, like singing “Silent Night” loudly.

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Col. Digal said he is willing to resign if there will be no firecracker-related incidents during the Yuletide holidays.

“Andam ko mo-tender og resignation kung way madisgrasya karong Pasko,” Col. Digal said.

I think the total ban on firecrackers should be imposed first.

And if no firecracker-related incidents will happen, the good colonel should be praised instead of having him resign.

Barrita: Total ban on firecrackers? | Sun.Star Network Online

[moklo]

Agree ko nga i ban ni...

unsa man naa sa pabuto diba sounds rman ang makuha nato, ngano diay ug palit ka ug sound system dayun pa kusgan, malingaw pa ka ug sayaw sayaw..

[sharkey360]

According to the PHL-based Ecowaste Coalition

1. Firecrackers can cause serious if not fatal injuries. Incorrect handling can lead to the loss of limbs, lives and properties.

2. Firecrackers produce smoke and dust loaded with harmful chemicals that can aggravate the poor air quality and cause throat and chest congestion and other health problems, particularly for people with asthma and chemical sensitivities.

3. Firecrackers leave behind unwanted discards such as paper scraps, cellophane and plastic wrappers, and PVC pipes from “boga” that add to the mountains of holiday trash.

4. Firecrackers produce deafening noise that can lead to anxiety, stress, sleep disorders, and hearing disabilities, and trigger high blood pressure and heart attack.

5. Firecrackers can result to severe ear injuries for animals who are more sensitive to sound, so the noise hurts their ears, terrifies them, and causes them to run wildly or lose their navigational skills.

6. Firecrackers waste money that should be spent instead to buy food for the table, clothes and books for the children and other essential needs.

Source - SIX REASONS AS TO WHY FIRECRACKERS ARE BAD TO PUBLIC HEALTH, CLIMATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: | Facebook

After all the spectacles of firecrackers, this happens.

[Crimson_Viper]

so wala nay mamaligya ug fire.works sa gun.ob lapu.lapu.?

[disenchanted]

so wala nay mamaligya ug fire.works sa gun.ob lapu.lapu.?

babag 1 and babag 2 na brad..

[emow]

ban firecrackers.... kapila na ku gilabayan ug five star sa mga bata.... itsahan mga pabuto mga muagi na sakyanan, delikado kaau....

[Crimson_Viper]

babag 1 and babag 2 na brad..

so wala najuy mamaligya dira, nya.?

[sharkey360]

The people who make a living out of firecrackers in Cebu are not that many. Worse, they may be involved in those illegal firecracker production operations and those joints should be raided and shut down. Recently, there were firecracker makers that got raided locally and they turned out to be illegal.