Santa Maria police stepping up enforcement of illegal fireworks
SANTA MARIA, Calif. The Santa Maria Police Department is ramping up its efforts to curb the use of illegal fireworks that are lighting up the city s sky nightly. We know they re going off, said Lt. Mark Strecker, Santa Maria Police Department. We can hear them and see them from the police department.
Strecker said the numbers of calls coming each day is impacting the city s dispatch system. We ve had a significant number of increase in the number of calls coming into dispatch for firework complains, said Strecker. The people that it is affecting and mostly the people who are calling, we get a lot of elderly that call, people with pets, our veterans and we are very sensitive to that and we have to be responsive to that.