As wildfires blaze across a dry Utah, public officials are asking residents to respect bans on fireworks that range from areas inside cities to the entire town of Park City to wide swaths of both public and private land in southern Utah.
And although Sugar House Park won’t have a professional display for the first summer in years, cities around the Wasatch Front plan to light the skies at dusk on Independence Day.
A new law this year gives Utah municipalities more leeway in banning fireworks over fire hazards. The law also reduced the number of days fireworks can be discharged over the July 4 and July 24 holidays, from 14 to eight days.