BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Erie County Sheriff's Office is reminding people which fireworks are legal and which ones are not legal this weekend.
They say sparkling devices are legal for anyone 18 and older.
Those are ground-based or handheld fireworks that produce colored sparks or flames, smoke, or make crackling and whistling noises. They do not launch into the air.
The ones that do launches, such as bottle rockets, roman candles, and spinners, are illegal statewide.
"A lot of people sometimes don't understand that there is potential for some type of injury or lethality associated with pyrotechnics," according to Dan Walczak, a bomb squad detective with the Erie County Sheriff's Office.