Court declines to authorize optional fireworks sales amid severe drought
Lubbock County commissioners heard emergency management advice and agreed to take no action now on authorizing optional fireworks sales for Texas Independence Day because the county remains in Stage 2 severe drought under the governor's disaster declaration.
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Emergency Management Coordinator Clinton Petrick briefed the Lubbock County Commissioners Court on Feb. 23 about statutory deadlines, local drought indices and wildfire risk governing optional county authorization of fireworks sales.
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