Fireworks banned this National Day

We’re heading into a fireworks-free national day.

All six French-speaking cantons have banned private fireworks and open fires for 1st August, after weeks of drought pushed wildfire danger to level 4 or 5 nearly everywhere. 

Only a handful of official displays remain, fired by licensed pyrotechnicians over Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Murten. 

Valais and Fribourg have gone further and suspended the sale of fireworks altogether. Anyone caught lighting a firework or open flame now faces fines and possible criminal charges.

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