What about the fireworks in rockville at the Montgomery College Campus?

What about the show at the Fair Grounds, will that still go on?

The one's at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds are canceled too.

I spoke to Mr. Leggett and he said no fireworks in Montgomery County at all. No exceptions. Sorry guys.

To be clear- the fireworks show that's planned by the county.

Takoma Park's fireworks and parade are still going on. If that change's we'll let you know.

Ridiculous. There is no disruption except for people without power. You would think that the county would want to get them out of their houses to a place where its cooler.

I guess then we will have our own fireworks show!

I wish they could have done what they did 11 years ago when it poured on the Fourth--move it to another day. In this case, that day might have to be a couple weeks later, but I personally would rather wait and have fireworks late than not have them at all. Of course,I realize that there are financial considerations: By not having the fireworks, resources are saved at a time when the County is currently paying for a lot of unforeseen expenses.

Is the Poolesville one still going on?

A classic political move by Leggett. People can drive to work, drive home, conduct their business without problems and yet he cancels fireworks two days from now. He wants to be able to point to Pepco and criticize them to curry favor with the electorate in November. This man is a phoney.

There are more important things in life than Fireworks. Maybe next year the Fireworks and celebration for the 4th of July can be made a bigger event to make up for this year's cancellation. This has been a bad time for the communities who have lost power, not to mention the damages and spoilage of food. Many are dealing with getting trees removed. I approve of the fireworks cancellation.

Im dealing with the issues just like everyone but personally would like a little time away from the issue. 30 mins of not thinking about the money wasted on food in my freezer etc. Very sad but life goes on. Looks like it will be my first year watching the DC fireworks live.

Frederick's fireworks are at baker park and are still on. Free Concert on the west side

Those of you whining about this, or seeing some weird conspiracy theory: Have you been through the neighborhoods around Einstein? I can't speak to the other locations, but that neighborhood still has no power (we live within a few blocks of there and PEPCO says at this point there is still no crew even assigned to our outsage!) and there are many many trees down. It is a dangerous situation just for the people who actually live there, add bunches of other folks coming to see fireworks plus the danger from the fireworks and it just seems like a very bad idea.

“I made this very difficult decision based on the ongoing need to apply county police, fire and rescue, transportation, and other county resources to help our residents who continue to be severely impacted by this recent storm,” said County Executive Isiah Leggett.

yet the police are still manning speed traps on the ICC.......... priorities my ......

The speed traps that you speak of are state workers and not county police. The ICC is patrolled by state transportation authority police, not county police.

thanks for the update on that, I was moving at too high a rate of speed to read the side of the cars ( j/k) :-) my point is that when there is a disaster, (And maryland was declared a disaster ) does it really matter ?., im thinking with hundreds of traffic lights out , multiple deaths, trees blocking entire neighborhoods, power out to hundreds of thousands, the county, the state should reassign those personell to the more important pressing matters at hand.... the only reason i was on the ICC was due to the overwhelming number of blacked out intersections without police presence. That lone police officer if manning an intersection would better serve and protect the citizens of maryland than giving out tickets on the ICC ( and no i didnt get a ticket on that day .

I can understadn MOVING the fireworks, but a straight out cancel is a bit much. The fairgrounds are being used as a staging area for some of the outof town help coming, but Germantown - C/mon man.
THis is a politcal move. No other area has cancelled have they? DC will still go off, as will Fairfax, Manassas, and all of NoVa. Guess Maryland would like me to spend my money thier and not in my home state.

Yeah, postpone rather than cancel them! It has been done before. I'm sure we, the humble taxpayers, will be losing a ton of money by cancelling. What about all the small vendors who have shelled out big bucks for supplies? They're taking a double hit. This is yet another reason the fireworks shouldn't be done at Einstein in the middle of a densely populated residential neighborhood. If they were in downtown Wheaton, where they started, this wouldn't be such a problem.

I think it is smart and responsible of the county not to spend money on fireworks when they are spending a lot extra cleaning up after that huge storm on Friday. Bravo to them for being frugal with our tax money! And people can still metro to DC to watch the national fireworks that night, or go to Takoma.

Us washington dc fire works still on

I hope the City of G'Burg or the fairground owners is charging PEPCO a huge sum for using the property ( but I doubt it). Failure to have a responsible plan for managing out of town resources is just another example of PEPCO desire not to manage these events.

YES!!!!!!!! the Takoma Park Fourth of July parade and fireworks are being held as scheduled.

Postpone, money has been paid to pyrotechnics companies for their contracts and vendors cannot afford to loose money invested at this time on this economy. Shall we look at the greater good? 1812- 2012 celebtation!

My office overlooks the fairgrounds. Lot of activity over there and quite a few Pepco trucks still sitting here.

Hey, theres always the fair.

I don't know if I missed another post but in case you didn't know, they have rescheduled the fireworks (at least the Gaithersburg ones) for Friday, July 13th (rain date the 14th). Yay! I have to agree with the comment made prior to mine: "Didn't the County save money this winter by having almost no snow removal or snow emergency costs? That should help subsidize the current cleanup costs." I also have to say that if the budget was a problem, I can see the cancellation, but I think that the issue (with Gaithersburg at least) was more logistics than budget (since I would assume that they would have already purchased the fireworks more than a week before the 4th). Selfishly, I'm happy they rescheduled because my daughters look forward to the fireworks and I love seeing the looks on their faces during the show. :)