July 06 -- Emergency responders who initially were called to contain a grass fire were targeted by fireworks-wielding assailants Thursday night.
Fire crews trying to extinguish a grass fire near Chamberlain Park, 4940 N. Frankfort Ave., requested police assistance about 8:30 p.m. when assailants began firing Roman candle-style fireworks at them, Officer Leland Ashley said.
The perpetrators also fired at the responding police officers, making 2013 the second consecutive year in which Tulsa police have been shot at with fireworks. Ashley could not recall any similar situations in preceding years.
"It really makes for a dangerous situation," he said.
No injuries were reported related to Thursday's incident.
A Fox 23 television reporter was burned by fireworks July 5, 2012, near 63rd Street North and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when assailants shot fireworks at him, police officers and a news truck.
No arrests have been made in either case.
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