AMARILLO, TX -- If you're ready to get out this weekend and start shooting off your fireworks, county officials want to remind you that you can't just shoot them off anywhere.
The only place you can legally shoot the fireworks is in the county, not the city, and you have to have the approval from the landowner before you start. County officials say with crops in the field, they're doubling their patrol this weekend to make sure all the laws are being followed.
"We're not going to let people impede traffic, we're not going to let people stop on public roads and public right of ways to shoot fireworks. You can do it on private property and with a landowner's permission and that's the only way you can do it," according to Randall County Sheriff, Joel Richardson. "We want to encourage everybody to have a good, fun, safe 4th of July, and we've had rain but we've still to wheat in the fields, some of it has been cut, but we still have wheat out there and fireworks do start fires."
He also wanted to remind people that they are responsible for the trash generated by the fireworks as well.
