In the summer, the local festivities take place in which flares, firecrackers and light sources They pass from hand to hand to add fun and a lot of noise to the celebrations.
When I was a child I didn't enjoy firecrackers, and as a teenager I didn't understand the habit of waiting at the end of the parties to start a 'symphony' of lights and small explosions.
As a mother I try to be very cautious (or maybe I should be more), and I have not let my children throw firecrackers until the oldest was 8 and a half. The precautionary measures I take are to choose them, be with them when they are turned on, and warn them of things as obvious as little remembered ('Firecrackers are not exploited inside cans', for example). I extend surveillance to children with whom they share these gadgets. I participate and at the same time I regret being so lax, because European legislation sets the age to firecrackers in 12 years, and yet a decree of the Generalitat Valenciana reduced it to eight, to the amazement and disagreement of the councilor of parties of the autonomous capital.
And it is that as happens with safety measures when traveling by car, what should mark our behavior is not only the law, but common sense, which usually goes on vacation permanently. On the other hand I have special interest in that when you want to have fun with firecrackers or older flares, always remember that safety goes first and then fun (the lack of the first can cloud the second).
An ambiguous position, as you can see, but yesterday the news overwhelmed me with the information of a nine-year-old boy dead when a piece of tin that had exploded along with the firecracker it contained was stuck in the jugular, was during the Bonfires of San Juan . The little boy had not even participated because he was afraid, terrible!
Nine years! Is my son's age, so I have decided to take this whole thing more seriously, since During the two and a half months that the holidays last, these 'games' will be more present around us.
To take into account with firecrackers and pyrotechnics
Buy pyrotechnic products always in a authorized establishment.
Never store firecrackers in your pockets.
Read the instructions in each article with your child.
Do not hold firecrackers with your hands, neither put them near the face or body.
Use wicks and the like to light the pyrotechnic material. The wick must always be lit at its end and removed.
In the event that a firecracker did not light, do not touch it until half an hour has passed and wet it
Do not throw firecrackers at anyone or less than 500 meters from forested areas or in crowds of people.
In the places where verbenas are celebrated, you have to collect the clothes hanging and the awnings, and close doors and windows. Firecrackers should not be lit inside houses or handled from balconies or windows.
They are recommendations of FAROS, to which I would add that Firecrackers do not light inside closed or semi-closed containers regardless of the material, which do not get into holes before lighting them (I had to reprimand children who intended to place the end in a lamppost), and that no harm is done to animals with them, not even to ants (they do not do grace that destroys their anthill), cruelty should not be allowed even if the victims are insects.
