If you’ve been itching to let loose with your fireworks in Bonney Lake, the three-day legal period for setting off approved explosives began today. Sumner citizens will have to wait a little bit longer: the valley city’s legal period is July 4 from noon to midnight only.

Fireworks ignition and discharge on your own property in Bonney Lake is allowed between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. today and June 5, and 9 a.m. and midnight on July 4. Fireworks discharge in parks and other city property is prohibited without a permit.

Legal fireworks:

• Sparklers

• Cylindrical fountains

• Cone fountains

• Illuminating torch wheels

• Ground spinners

• Flitter sparklers

• Mines/Shells

• Smoke devices

• Helicopter aerial spinners

• Roman candles

Legal only on tribal land:

• Firecrackers

• Bottle rockets

• Missiles

• Rockets

Illegal:

• M-80s or larger explosive devices

• Dynamite

• Cherry bombs

• Any improvised, homemade or otherwise altered explosive devices (e.g. exploding tennis balls)

Violating a city fireworks code is a misdemeanor crime punishable by imprisonment and fine.