[NENA] DANGER -illegal fireworks

[John Ingram]

Right you are, Rodney. 
 
I called 311 Friday night to file complaint about illegal fireworks coming from North Oakland Court, which is about 3 streets east of Barstow on Oakland. The 311 operator gave me a number for fire marshall.
 
I walked-up Oakland to see what was going on. The homeowners on North Oakland Court had blocked-off the street, must have been 25-30 cars parked on Oakland near North Oakland Court, and they were lighting-up some industrial strength fireworks. It was like a war zone.
 
I made the call at about 9:30 pm. A firetruck showed up about 10:30 pm, it drove west on Oakland, then back east to Barstow, turned south on Barstow and left the nighborhood.
 
I called again at 11:30 pm to file same complaint. Nothing happened.
 
July 5 the North Oakland Court started up again. I called fire marshall again. Nothing happened.
 
The newspaper report I emailed to NENA morning of 4th said to call 311 with complaints and they would send police and fire marshalls. I called 311 and they just gave me another number for fire marshall. 
 
This sucks. Does anyone know the families who live on North Oakland Court? Are they part of the association? Can we talk to them about this so it doesn't happen again?
 
It's hard to believe that reasonable homeowners who are aware of current fire dangers, as well as these ordinances would risk harming their neighbors and getting fines or jail time. 
 
The other thing that bugs is someone would have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to have noticed what families on North Oakland Court were doing July 4-5, yet the fire truck drove in the opposite direction. What's up with that?
 
John

--- On Sun, 7/6/08, Rodney Adams <demorodney at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Rodney Adams <demorodney at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: DANGER -illegal fireworks
To: "'NENA'" <members at noreste.org>, "'JOE YARDUMIAN'" <jjyard at q.com>, "Tom Holschuh" <holschuht at msn.com>, ingram1ja at yahoo.com
Cc: "'Evie Durgarian'" <evieneale at sbcglobal.net>, WHenz at cabq.gov, DTrujeque at cabq.gov
Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 10:23 AM







Well, as everyone is more than aware, nobody gives a rat's behind.  Despite an almost impossible amount of illegal fireworks discharged in the neighborhood beginning early Friday and continuing well past midnight, and despite numerous calls to the AFD Fireworks hotline, the barage continued.
 
Just one more example of passing laws or ordinances nobody bothers to even attempt to enforce.
 
And, having taking our daily walk this SUNDAY morning, there is still debris in the park from Friday night. 
 
Rodney Adams. 
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