Fireworks: What's Legal?

For Royal Oak and the rest of the state, if it spins, twirls, leaves the ground or makes a bang, the firework is illegal.

That means Roman candles, bottle rockets and m-80s are off limits, in addition to many others. Here's a full list of legal fireworks according to area fire departments:

• Flat paper caps.
• Toy trick noise makers (party poppers, pop-its, fun snaps, toy pistols using flat paper caps, etc.).
• Sparklers.
• "Flitter" sparklers (a narrow paper tube attached to a thin wooden handle and emit a shower of sparks).
• Fountains that are cone shaped or cylindrical shaped that emit a shower of sparks and sometimes a whistle effect.
• Toy snakes (a pressed pellet that produces a large snake like ash upon burning).
• Toy smoke devices (smoke bombs, smoke pots, smoke grenades, smoke balls, etc. that produce white or colored smoke).