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Alcala, Abigail <br />From: <br />Lucy Bateson < <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, April 05, 2016 5:10 PM <br />To: <br />Huizar, Maria <br />Subject: <br />Fireworks Ban for Santa Ana <br />Honorable Mayor and Council Members — <br />I thought after 38 years of living on So. Parton Street I had experienced the worst Santa Ana could offer for 4th of July <br />firework fiascos, but 2015 took the cake. The city was out of control. <br />It was frightening for me; I can only imagine what the Edison worker that night felt when we had neighbors whose <br />power was out because of a hit to a transformer by a bottle rocket and his job was to climb the pole to repair the <br />problem. He didn't. No sane person would have. And so those poor neighbors were out of power for eleven hours <br />while the poor man waited for the fireworks to subside before he would fix the problem. That is truly out of control. <br />The problem is too large to be contained. The police and fire personnel are overwhelmed. The existence of "safe and <br />sane" fireworks obfuscates the "unsafe and insane" ones to the point that the only possible way to control the problem <br />is to completely ban all fireworks. <br />Perhaps at a future date the city will be able to re -address fireworks stands. But at this point, the potential of danger to <br />life and property is far too high to consider anything but a complete ban. <br />Thank you for your consideration, <br />Lucy and John Bateson <br />1204 So. Parton Street <br />Santa Ana, CA 92707 <br />DVirus -free. www,avast.com <br />