The uniquely Florida wink-and-a-nod ritual entailed in buying consumer-grade fireworks became statewide history as of April 8, 2020 with a new law §791.08, F.S., which eliminated the much-reviled “bird scaring” waiver previously required to purchase low-grade pyrotechnics. The product of years of lawmakers’ wrangling with fireworks manufacturers (often joined by the emergency physicians and hospitals’...Read More