Organizations Opposed to Consumer Fireworks
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has an excellent website for information on the dangers of consumer fireworks (http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/holidays/fireworks). Below is a list of pediatric, medical, firefighter, and fire safety organizations that have joined the NFPA's Alliance to Stop Consumer Fireworks:
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• American Association of Public Health Physicians
• American Burn Association
• American College of Emergency Physicians
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
• American Society for Surgery of the Hand
• National Association of School Nurses
• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
• Prevent Blindness America
• Center for Injury Research & Policy
• Emergency Nurses Association
• Fire Department Safety Officers Association
• International Association of Fire Chiefs
• International Association of Fire Fighters
• International Fire Marshals Association
• Metropolitan Fire Chiefs
• International Association of Arson Investigators
• National Volunteer Fire Council
• National Association of State Fire Marshals
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