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Fireworks Policy in Orange County <br />In 2017, ten Orange County cities permitted the sale of safe and sane fireworks for a total of 254 <br />retail consumer fireworks stands throughout the County. <br />city <br />Quantity <br />Anaheim <br />16 <br />Buena Park <br />30 <br />Costa Mesa <br />35 <br />Fullerton <br />15 <br />Garden Grove <br />45 <br />Huntington Beach <br />15 <br />Santa Ana <br />74 <br />Stanton <br />6 <br />Villa Park <br />3 <br />Westminster <br />15 <br />Total <br />254 <br />This year, the City of Anaheim revamped their fireworks program by allowing only 16 stands to <br />operate booths in the City. For the past 2 years, Anaheim allowed every nonprofit to participate, <br />but for 2017, applications were accepted into a lottery for 8 slots. Another 8 slots were reserved <br />for Anaheim high schools. Although this limited the number of nonprofits allowed to participate, <br />it meant that those nonprofits that were selected would stand to make much more in profits this <br />year as opposed to previous years. <br />In Santa Ana, illegal mortars and rockets were fired all night across streets and were being aimed <br />at people and cars. More than 5,700 illegal fireworks were seized between the hours of 8pm and <br />2am. There were close to 400 calls that came in to police and the holiday resulted in 16 arrests, <br />each with a $1,000 fine. Santa Ana experienced close to $40,000 in property/content losses due to <br />several building and vehicle fires that took place as a result of firework activity within the city. <br />5 <br />