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Residents urge Island County to restrict fireworks; commissioners weigh advisory vote and code changes
Summary
Residents and advocacy groups urged Island County to ban mortar sales, add fireworks to level-1 burn-ban prohibitions, and place an advisory vote for South Whidbey on the 2025 ballot; commissioners said they have constraints on enforcement and will consider work-session discussion if at least two commissioners request it.
Jackie Lassiter, speaking for Citizens for Safe and Humane Fireworks, asked the Board of Island County Commissioners on March 11 to give South Whidbey residents a chance to vote on a local no-consumer-fireworks zone and to adopt code changes to prohibit sale of mortar fireworks countywide.
"Let the citizens of South Whidbey decide," Lassiter told the board, and she urged adding fireworks to the list of uses prohibited during a level 1 burn ban to reduce wildfire risk and chemical pollution, naming PFAS as a concern.
Two other residents described personal and…
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