Evidenced by the booms that could be heard locally before the ball dropped in Times Square in New York City, some residents in Clark County made fireworks part of their New Year’s Eve celebrations.
The county saw about 100 noise complaints made to 911 starting around 5 p.m. and extending into the wee hours of New Year’s Day, according to emergency dispatch logs.
About one-quarter of those calls came in to 911 within 10 minutes of midnight.
None of those calls were patched through to Clark County Assistant Fire Marshal Richard Martin, who was the lone on-call investigator. He said he also hadn’t heard of any fires sparked by fireworks.
Fireworks were illegal on Dec. 31 everywhere in Clark County except inside the city limits of Battle Ground, Camas and Washougal, where people could shoot them off from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. There weren’t any noise complaints in Battle Ground, though, and there was just one each in Camas in Washougal.