9 Essential Safety Tips for Fireworks Season
Although we all know it’s not safe to play with fire, many of us can’t resist the appeal of setting off fireworks and sparklers at our family celebrations around the Fourth of July.Almost two-thirds of parents of school-age children have fireworks at family celebrations, and so do roughly two in five parents of toddlers and preschoolers, according to a C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health conducted in 2022.There are plenty of good reasons we should leave fireworks to the professionals. Fireworks-related injuries and deaths have surged in recent years, sending about 15,600 people to the emergency room and causing 18 deaths in 2020 alone, according to a draft annual report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).Two-thirds of the injuries and deaths happened in the month around July…