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Now legal, fireworks sales go off big in Gainesville
Local shop cashes in just in time for holiday
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George Watson purchases fireworks Friday with his daughter Gracelyn at Xtreme Xplosions in Gainesville. The most popular products being sold at Xtreme Xplosives leading up to the Fourth of July were mortars, shells and repeaters. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Jason Sillay couldn’t keep fireworks on the shelves Saturday. His “wild guesstimate” for the number of people who stopped by to buy fireworks in the last 24 hours: more than 5,000. As of Wednesday, fireworks were permitted to be sold from brick-and-mortar stores and some temporary locations in Georgia so long as they complied with code requirements and had a permit from the Georgia Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner.