OPINION
When economic uncertainties mount, Arizona families face impossible choices around housing, food, utilities and employment. Help is out there, though many don’t know it — a quiet but vital network working in neighborhoods to help cover essentials, weather financial shocks and regain stability. These are Community Action Agencies — CAAs — and Arizona is home to 11 of them.
Every year around the Fourth of July, Valley pet shelters receive a surge of calls from distressed pet parents. Some are looking for lost pets who bolted during fireworks; others are asking for advice on how to soothe a shaking, panicked animal. And sadly, we often take in new strays — terrified dogs and cats who broke free in fear and couldn’t find their way home.
While aerial and exploding fireworks such as rockets, firecrackers, skyrockets, bottle rockets, missile rockets and torpedoes are illegal in Arizona, Fourth of July revelers can legally use permissible ground-based fireworks from June 24 to July 6. For a list of permissible items, and when and where they can be used, visit your city, county or police/fire department websites.
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