Page 10 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2021 Introducing the Everett High School Girls’ Softball Team Bottom row, pictured from left to right: Kaleigh Snook, Alyssa Bessler, Haley Oteri, Madison Smith, Emma Longmore and Macayla Bessler. Top row, pictured from left to right: Head Coach Stacy Schiavo, Kaylin Seward, Kristi Skane, Celeste Fuccillo, Kayley Rossi, Sarah Dumeng, Ashley Fitzgerald, Bryana Mason and Assistant Coach Jennifer Nigro. (Advocate photos by Tara Vocino) Seniors will have their Senior Game against Lynn Classical High School at 3 p.m. on Monday at Glendale Park. On Wednesday, they beat Malden High School 16-0. Coaches take a photo with the seniors, pictured from left to right: Kayleigh Snook, Alyssa Bessler, Madison Smith, Ashley Fitzgerald, Sarah Dumeng, Macayla Bessler and Haley Oteri. Statewide efforts begin to enforce fireworks regulations S tate Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey and State Police Colonel Christopher Mason recently announced that fireworks enforcement efforts have started. The State Police Bomb Squad is part of the Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit (F&EIU) assigned to the Office of the State Fire Marshal, which has already started working with local police and fire departments to enforce the fireworks laws and intercept fireworks being brought into the state illegally. “It is illegal to bring fireworks into Massachusetts, even if they were legally purchased elsewhere,” said Ostroskey. In communities throughout the Commonwealth, there has been a significant rise in resident complaints regarding fireworks. The State Police Bomb Squad had a 63 percent increase in response to fireworks calls in 2020 over 2019. During the F&EIU 2020 fireworks enforcement operation, there were 47 criminal summonses issued over a fourday period. This year’s enforcement operation has already started and will last longer. “In addition to special enforcement efforts to intercept fireworks coming into Massachusetts, troopers and local police will seize illegal fireworks they find during routine traffic stops,” said Mason. “We don’t want a repeat of the huge increase in resident complaints we experienced last year.” “There will be supervised displays of fireworks this year unlike last year, so we encourage you to leave the fireworks to the professionals,” said Ostroskey. “Fireworks are illegal because they are dangerous. Fires started by fireworks in Massachusetts increased 180 percent in 2020 from 2019.” In the past decade, there have been 941 major fire and explosion incidents involving illegal fireworks reported to the Massachusetts Fire Incident Reporting System. The incidents caused 12 civilian injuries, 42 fire service injuries and an estimated monetary loss of $2.1 million, which is high considering that most fireworks FIREWORKS | SEE PAGE 18
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