{"id":18838,"date":"2023-06-26T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=18838"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:01:58","slug":"400-pounds-of-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/400-pounds-of-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"San Mateo County Sheriff's Office collects 400 pounds of fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Tony Hicks. Bay City News<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office reported collecting nearly 400 pounds of illegal fireworks during the county's first fireworks buyback event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Held in the parking lot of 2500 Middlefield Road in Redwood City, the drive was a no-questions-asked opportunity for people to drop off fireworks of any kind for safe disposal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The five-hour event was hosted by the sheriff's office and County Supervisor Warren Slocum's office. Depending on the weight, up to $75 in cash was paid out to people who turned in their fireworks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The goal was to reduce the illegal use of fireworks throughout San Mateo County.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fourth of July holiday is a great day to spend time with friends and family. It is also one of the busiest nights of the year for our patrol officers,\u201d said San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIllegal fireworks pose serious risks to our community and have negative impacts on everyone\u2019s quality of life. This buyback was intended to give people the opportunity to turn in their fireworks and help make everyone\u2019s holiday safer. I want to thank Supervisor Slocum for his support in making this such a successful event,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The collected material included military-grade smoke grenades, M-80s, Ariel rockets and mortar-style fireworks. Sheriff's Office explosive ordnance disposal technicians were on scene in case of any unsafe circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Por Tony Hicks. Bay City News.\u00a0\u00a0 La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de San Mateo inform\u00f3 que recolect\u00f3 casi 400 libras de fuegos artificiales ilegales durante el primer evento de recompra de estos artefactos en el condado. Celebrada en el estacionamiento del 2500 de Middlefield Road en Redwood City, la recolecta fue una oportunidad sin […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19584,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions\/19584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}