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Utah lawmakers push to limit summer fireworks after rash of fires and complaints of polluted air and terrified pets

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Talk of changes just the latest in a long string of discussion about Utah’s fireworks law.

(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Fireworks explode over the lights of the Christmas Village, in the Municipal Gardens in Ogden, on 26th Street and Washington Boulevard, Saturday, November 26, 2011. Santa flipped the switch to turn on the Christmas Village lights after the annual Holiday Electric Light Parade on Washington Boulevard this evening.

A bill moving through the Legislature would restrict fireworks to two days before and one day after both Independence Day on July 4 and Pioneer Day on July 24.