#firework permit

An estimated 60 people attended a meeting focused on illegal fireworks, what’s is being done to curb their impact and import as well as enforcement on Maui.

Police issued a warning asking for the public’s help in reporting the location of illegal aerial fireworks and the identity of people in possession of them.

The County of Maui’s, Department of Fire and Public Safety announces the sale of New Year’s Eve fireworks beginning on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 and ending on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 at 12:01 a.m.

The department urged the public to consider leaving fireworks to the professionals, which include two public fireworks displays at midnight: one in Kīhei at a barge offshore of the Grand Wailea Resort, and the other at the Mānele Bay Hotel on Lānaʻi.

Stores selling permit-required firecrackers include: all Foodland stores, including Lahaina Farms and Sack N Save in Wailuku; all Times supermarkets; Nāpili Market; the Golden Dragon tent at the Queen Kaʻahumanu Shopping Center; Pine Isle Market on Lānaʻi; and Misaki’s and Take’s Variety on Molokaʻi.

The Fire Prevention Bureau on Maui began selling fireworks permits on Monday Dec. 23, at their offices off Waikō Road, as well as at county parks permit offices at the Lahaina Civic Center and on Molokaʻi. Permit sales on Lānaʻi begin on Thursday at Pine Isle Market.