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POTTSTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania volunteer fire company says it has cancelled this year’s Easter egg hunt for children because of “unruly” parents in past years.

The Norco Fire Company in North Coventry Township says on its Facebook page the annual children’s event won’t be held this year.

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Deputy Chief Chuck Hipple says there has been a recurring problem of some parents running onto the field despite having been told not to and posing a danger to children. He says it’s not the majority of people but a few people “just can’t seem to let the kids have fun.”

Officials say they hope to try again later to hold the event in the township near Pottstown, 64 kilometres northwest of Philadelphia.

On the force’s Facebook page, commenters both wondered why the event was being cancelled instead of better organized. In response, the all-volunteer force asked them to show up and volunteer.

Others said they’d witnessed parents barging into the hunt and grabbing all the eggs and putting them in their kids’ baskets. One woman said her two-year-old granddaughter was knocked over two years ago.