What a difference a year makes. Twelve months to the day after a cache of illegal fireworks detonated at an Aliamanu home, leaving six people dead and a dozen more injured, noticeably fewer aerial incendiaries lit up the sky above Oahu. It was not a precipitous decline — revelers continue to parta ke in the dangerous island tradition, and airborne explosions were prevalent in hotspots — but many residents noted a palpable decline from years past. Nothing like catastrophic death and destruction to nudge public sentiment. ...read more read less