HALAWA HEIGHTS, Hawaii (KHON2) — Honolulu police say there have been hundreds of 911 calls over the past couple of months to report illegal fireworks, but no arrests.
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Some residents said the nightly explosions are only getting worse.
Jim Cook has lived in Halawa Heights for decades and used to pop fireworks as a kid on New Year’s Eve.
“You can understand that. What I’m against is fireworks going off every night ever since Thanksgiving. 1030 at night on a weekday. I mean, everybody’s asleep,” he said, “Boom! My friend who’s a Vietnam vet, we were eating dinner one night. Concussion bomb went off. He dove under the table. It’s really hard on people.”
Jim’s pup is not a big fan of the nightly explosions either.
“She jumps up, she starts pacing back and forth, she quivers, she drools, and she can’t settle down after that,” Cook said. “I spend up to 2 hours petting her and trying to calm her down!”