Like most people on Oahu on New Year’s Eve, I was shocked and felt assaulted by the onslaught of criminal fireworks activity. We were told that permit sales were down and yet this year fireworks seemed double what it was last year. Most people can see that there is now an underground criminal network of importing, storing and sales of illegal and dangerous fireworks (bombs).

What’s the difference between your neighbor storing hundreds of pounds of dynamite or the same amount of fireworks? Nothing, when it explodes.

It is time for the Honolulu police and fire departments, lawmakers and the federal govern- ment to step up and find these bombs before they can go off and take a neighborhood with them.

Marguerite Akana

Ewa Beach

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