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You’ll have fewer days to buy and light off fireworks next year, Omaha.

The City Council on Tuesday voted 7-0 to shorten the city’s July Fourth and New Year’s fireworks seasons.

Under the ordinance, Omahans will have three days to light off fireworks next Fourth of July. That’s down from this year’s 10-day season.

Omahans will have seven days to buy fireworks, from June 28 through July 4. That’s shorter than this year’s selling season, which began June 25. Shooting off fireworks will be legal in the city from July 2 through July 4.

And over the New Year’s holiday, people will have from 5 p.m. on New Year’s Eve until 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day to shoot off fireworks. (People still won’t be able to buy fireworks in Omaha over New Year’s.)

Mayor Jean Stothert started the discussion about shortening the fireworks season in an effort to address concerns from veterans and pet owners. The city receives hundreds of fireworks complaints each year.

Stothert, in a statement, called the council’s action “necessary and appropriate.”