Fireworks go on sale here in (drought stricken) Oregon tomorrow through July 6th. What could

[CentralMass]

possibly go wrong ?

[KPN]

1. And fire season is already upon us -- even in western Oregon -- earlier than usual.

Central MA, eh? Eastern MA here. Left in 75 and in Oregon since 88.

[CentralMass]

4. Hi KPN myformer MA compatriot. I moved here at the end of 2014.

Yes the conditions don't bode well for the fire season.

[LizBeth]

2. I voted somewhere and maybe just Eugene where all sales voted banned.

[Thunderbeast]

3. I can not see Mt. Hood (Wy'East) from my Portland deck

Smoke from a fire on the Warm Springs Reservation has nearly obscured the peak.

I also have a view of the Columbia Gorge...a verdant landscape until three years ago when a teenager with a smoke bomb burned it down. Last fall, many Cascade landscapes were destroyed by fire.

Weekend temperatures in the normally temperate Willamette Valley are forecasted to be over 105°.

Adding fireworks (mostly illegal) to these conditions is a recipe for another conflagration.

Sadly the soverign reservations use imported fireworks as a cash cow. It has proven VERY destructive.

[CentralMass]

7. I climbed up to Larch Mountain from the Multinomah Falls parking lot on

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that that labor day before the fire swept through the gorge later that night. The smoke was heavy and the sun looked like a red ball and it cast orange red glow on the pools from the water cascading down the mountain on the trail I was climbing up. I made it down around 12:30. The fire swept through by midnight that night.

[Grasswire2]

5. I live on the bank of the river that runs through Portland.

The wooded island/park in front of my home was set on fire by an arsonist last September 9. Five fire departments, three fire boats and 900 feet of hose required to extinguish it, with the wind blowing strong toward a wooded area at the top of which are multiple senior residential facilities and condo complexes. Could have been a mass casualty event if a blowing ember went that way. Something literally happened to my heart that night, and I've been under a cardiologist's care since then.

Going to be 107 here this coming weekend.

[Shrike47]

6. 107? I so hope they are exaggerating. Maybe really only 102 degrees.

I was not happy yesterday. We don’t have air conditioning.

[Grasswire2]

8. The power was out for a while last night in Oregon City-Gladstone, I hear.

At that point even a fan isn't useable. Scary.

[captain queeg]

9. WA has even looser fireworks laws. Many Oregonians come up and stock up

I think they have prohibited sales in Vancouver, but outside city limits the stands are popping up.