“A 45% increase in call volume just for our dispatchers that were working hard to get the resources where they needed to be,” said Parker Wilbourn.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — Fire crews in Sacramento County were kept busy Thursday night with dozens of illegal fireworks causing damage and destruction.
In one case, a homeowner is now without a garage after it caught fire.
It happened in a quiet neighborhood known as the Little Pocket, where a charred garage is now boarded up at the 600 block of Piedmont Drive.
According to the Sacramento Fire Department, illegal fireworks were placed inside a garbage can beside the house and that’s what caused the fire.
Crews were able to quickly put out the fire between the two houses and it kept from getting inside either home.
About 30 minutes away, in Antelope, several teens were detained Thursday night after they allegedly threw mortars at oncoming traffic on Heartland Drive and Tetotom Park Way.
Logan Henson, who …