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"There is a world
emergency at the moment after the horrific events
in New York and Washington. Our hearts go
out to our comrades in the Fire Service, the
Police, the Ambulance Service, Doctors, Nurses
and the Paramedics and all the relatives and
friends of the people who were killed or
seriously injured because of terrorism."
As the long hot summer
draws to an end with autumnal weather conditions,
the start of the firework season is but a hair's
breadth away.
I have already discussed the firework injury
statistics in previous months. What we
should take away from 2000's Firework Statistics
is that 2 people have died, because legislation
was not in place to stop untrained people getting
hold of the most dangerous display fireworks in
category 4. The official figures may have
been under 1,000 but as it did not count the
injury figures for the second sales period of 3.5
weeks in December they would have been well over
1,000.
This year was the year when the protests of
people about fireworks and the 'need to do
something' continued from September to September.
In July thugs were still getting hold of
fireworks and setting them off. These were
no ordinary Category 2 fireworks, these were
fireworks for displays in categories 3 & 4.
In common with the new practise of selfish people
who annoy their neighbours, the Local Authorities
should do with fireworks as they do with stereo
equipment at nights. These selfish people
like to cause the maximum disruption by setting
fireworks off through the evening and into the
night.
This has led to the new phenomena of a sort of
'Neighbourhood Rage'. We will no doubt see
some court cases coming up about this. The
advice of the Campaign is to prosecute these
uncaring stupid people, either through the Local
Authorities who are at last starting to take
notice of fireworks or privately if necessary.
There is a world emergency at the moment after
the horrific events in New York and Washington.
Our hearts go out to our comrades in the Fire
Service, the Police, the Ambulance Service,
Doctors, Nurses and the Paramedics and all the
relatives and friends of the people who were
killed or seriously injured because of terrorism.
This is a seminal moment for us all, but at the
end of the retribution which world leaders have
agreed will be meted out to terrorists
everywhere, An international justice must
come from this, so that in the future nobody
feels the need to set up terrorists groups
because of the world order and/or the power
structure of various nations. That may
sound a bit of a tall order but it is worth
fighting for and its worth trying for.
Keep fingers well crossed that another generation
of people from whatever country are not wiped off
the face of the planet.
Because of the emergency the Government and the
firework industry must look again at whether
there is a need to have a firework season this
year. Our recommendation is to stand it
down as a mark of respect to those people killed
in the US.
With best wishes as usual,
Noel
28 September 2001
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