County sheriff praises Pleasant Valley Days response, urges Scofield to set local fireworks rules

Sheriff Jeff Wood of the Carbon County Sheriff's Office told the Scofield Town Council on July 14 that the county staffed extensive patrols during Pleasant Valley Days and urged the town to adopt a local ordinance if it wants to ban fireworks inside town limits.

Wood said the sheriff's office "proactively patrolled Pleasant Valley Day celebration in Schofield on July 4 through the sixth" and worked "a total of 17 10 hour shifts" in the Scofield area while other deputies covered roughly 1,400 square miles in the county. He said deputies handled traffic control, campsite patrols, water support for fireworks deliveries, medical and theft calls, and cited several traffic and drug-paraphernalia offenses.

The sheriff told the council the county received complaints about drinking and fireworks and that communications challenges in the area complicate law…