SCHENECTADY - Mont Pleasant Neighborhood Association President Pat Smith drove around her neighborhood late Fourth of July night stopping at one point to confront revelers who were igniting illegal fireworks on the street near her home.

"I said some of us have to go to work in the morning, and they just walked away," said Smith Thursday, adding she and several of her neighbors plan to bring up the issue at Monday's City Council meeting. "A few are ruining the quite enjoyment of the many."

Hamilton Hill Neighborhood Association President Marva Isaacs said she skipped work Thursday because the fireworks celebration on her street didn't end until after 5 a.m. Thursday.

"I couldn't sleep all night," she said, adding she didn't call police officers and didn't see any cops around. "I'm telling you it was terrible."

Isaccs said she also fielded complaints from a lot of people and that Strong Street was another hot spot. She didn't call police or see any officers around, she said.

Both Isaacs and Smith worried the fireworks would last a few more days.

In Troy, Assistant Chief Dan DeWolf said Thursday the police department had extra patrols to assist with "any nuisance calls and for visibility" but there were no fireworks-related arrests in the Collar City.

Last month, the Schenectady City Council approved an ordinance that anyone caught setting off a "public display of fireworks" without a permit would face up to a fine of $250, that

each individual launch of a firework constitutes a separate offense and that once police have probable cause to believe a person is breaking the law, they can seize the fireworks and paraphernalia with the fine determined by a judge.

The police department received 70 fireworks related calls, according to Sgt. Matthew Dearing, a city police spokesman.

Dearing said he had not fully reviewed the arrest records, but at least one person was cited for violating the city's fireworks ordinance that also resulted in the fireworks being confiscated from that individual.

City Councilwoman Leesa Perazzo said Thursday that things were much quieter particularly in the run up to Independence Day this year than last in her Bellevue neighborhood between Broadway and Guilderland Avenue.

Councilman John Polimeni also said agreed there seemed to be fewer fireworks in the days preceding the Fourth of July, but the holiday itself brought "mixed results and certainly not what we were hoping."

Councilmembers Vince Riggi and Ed Kosiur said they were awaiting data from the police department related to citations for violating the fireworks law or if they confiscated any pyrotechnics.

"I truly did not believe it was any better last night than it was in the past," said Kosiur, who lives in the Woodlawn section of Schenectady.

Riggi reiterated his belief that enforcement would be the key to the law being effective and might have been lacking because of the two incidents of gun violence police handled. The police department responded Tuesday to a shooting in Mont Pleasant and an incident where a man allegedly shot at his girlfriend. She was not hit.

"I fielded as many complaints as I have in the past so in my opinion not much has changed," Riggi said, adding that Police Chief Eric Clifford promised the issue would get "extra attention" this year.

The problem wasn't much better in suburban Glenville where Police Chief Stephen Janik said heard fireworks in his neighborhood until midnight.

He said some people mistakenly believe that fireworks are legal because they are being sold in tents that set up shop in some parts of the region.

"It's just so hard to put resources on making an arrest on every firework complaint, we'd rather just go and say,. 'Hey folks, tone it down or put it away,' but we can't go to every firework complaint and enforce the law, it's too much" said Janik. "It's more about education than it is about enforcement."