Illegal fireworks spark small Petaluma fire

Santa Rosa police Monday night received about 85 calls from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. involving fireworks being set off in the city, greatly adding to the night’s police-related calls, Sgt. Chad Heiser said.

At one time in the night, officers were tied up on calls with about 30 calls awaiting their response, mainly involving fireworks, Heiser said.

They eventually were handled, either with an officer’s response or the complaint being assigned to an officer to later evaluate.

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We had about 85 fireworks calls from 4:00 pm to 2:00 am. That’s an average of 8.5 calls per hour or about 1 every 7 minutes. Obviously these were not our only calls we received, so this added quite a bit of volume to our normal calls for service. At one point during the evening we had over 30 calls for service pending with no officers available to send. Most of these calls were fireworks calls. We eventually cleared all the calls by either an officer physically checking on it or by assigning the information as beat information for the beat officer to check when he/she had time.y yx yxy xyyxyxy