Illegal fireworks could end up on your flight. Here's why
May 23, 2025
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2:40Now PlayingIllegal fireworks could end up on your flight. Here's why
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as posted by the channelU.S. postal service officials have seized illegal fireworks more than 130 times in the past six years. They pull hundreds of pounds of fireworks headed for Hawaiʻi addresses each year.
Yet just six arrests have been made, and prosecutions almost never occur. So people keep mailing them. Those fireworks end up beneath our feet on commercial planes.
Check out this deep dive into one way illegal fireworks end up in our islands and see which neighborhoods these packages tend to end up most frequently.
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