City officials are warning residents not to set off consumer fireworks or celebratory...
Fireworks go off during Shell’s ‘Freedom Over Texas’ display in 2021. The show was televised for a virtual audience, but the city will welcome crowds in person again this year.City officials are encouraging Houston residents to forego illicit fireworks and celebratory gunfire and instead attend Shell’safter two years of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year’s show was televised for a virtual audience.
The gates at Eleanor Tinsley Park and Sam Houston Park will open at 4 p.m. Monday and the fireworks show will begin at 9:35 p.m. The cost is $10, and children under 5 get in for free. The separate fireworks show at Hermann Park’s Miller Outdoor Theater will not occur this year.“Freedom Over Texas is the only public, professional firework display in Houston,” Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a City Hall news conference Wednesday.
City officials emphasized that consumer fireworks are illegal in the city, though they remain legal in unincorporated Harris County. They told residents to skip personal shows and celebratory gunshots, warning of criminal charges,
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