{"id":13379,"date":"2016-11-08T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=13379"},"modified":"2016-11-08T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T16:09:45","slug":"fire-service-welcomes-petition-to-ban-sale-of-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/fire-service-welcomes-petition-to-ban-sale-of-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Service welcomes petition to ban sale of fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Wales Fire and Rescue Service says it supports\u00a0an online petition to ban the sale of fireworks and for\u00a0them to only be used in organised public displays.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly\u00a0130,000 people have signed a UK wide petition which aims to ban the private use of fireworks. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Head of Fire Crime, Home Safety and Fire Setting Intervention at South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Matthew Jones,\u00a0has welcomed the petition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Organised displays&#8230; [are]\u00a0actually\u00a0safe, they&#8217;ve been risk assessed [and] the fireworks have been purchased from a reputable retailer. The issues with\u00a0purchasing fireworks illegally, from the boot of a car, from a friend in\u00a0the pub, no one knows where those fireworks have come from and they haven&#8217;t been tested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Service are also encouraging people to attend organised events because of bonfires. They say bonfires getting out of control were the cause of many incidents on Bonfire Night with around 580 calls made to the Fire Service between 4pm and midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Jones says\u00a0South Wales Fire and Rescue Service will\u00a0 use social media and TV and radio stations\u00a0more next year\u00a0to raise awareness about bonfire night safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Wales Fire and Rescue Service says it supports\u00a0an online petition to ban the sale of fireworks and for\u00a0them to only be used in organised public displays. Nearly\u00a0130,000 people have signed a UK wide petition which aims to ban the private use of fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743],"tags":[802,680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13515,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions\/13515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}