'It's like a war zone.' What once was a crowd-pleasing event on the 4th of July in San Francisco, has turned into several unsettling nights of booming explosions, impacting pets and members of the community alike.
ByA San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Report highlights the effects illegal fireworks have on the community and what needs to be done to fix the problem.What once was a crowd-pleasing event on the 4th of July, has turned into several unsettling nights of booming explosions."Oh, to me, it's like a war zone," admitted long-time resident, Richard Segovia.
The Bayview, the Mission and the Tenderloin districts have had a significant number of calls to the 911 call center, also in the past six years."They just drive by, they stop and the people clear back and as soon as they go by, they start all over again," said Segovia.Here's what they told ABC7 News when we asked to ride along with officers during a raid: "At this time we are not scheduling this due to staffing limitations.
"They might not recognize that as a firework that they knew from their childhood but they might think it could be something like gunshots or other noise that could be very upsetting to them," said Claire Day of the Alzheimer's Association of Northern California and Northern Nevada. "The weeks leading up to and weeks after, it's a nail-biting time," said James Boatman of Swords to Plowshares. "I have some friends that 4th of July is hard for them. They have combat experience and it brings back bad memories.""Completely terrified, when they get really bad I have to drug her and even when she's so sedated she can't even stand up and walk, she's still shaking, she's hyperventilating.
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