lanterns

Before that "uniquely British Colonial celebration" called Guy Fawkes the NSRI issued a plea to the public to NOT set off Chinese Lanterns - see: Sky Lantern and Those Chinese Lanterns AGAIN. But, and these are my own words people; "Some idiots are determined to remain selfish and set off Chinese Lanterns which other people interpret as distress flares when the lanterns burn out. This results in hard working VOLUNTEERS having to race up and down the coast looking for 'seamen and boats in … [Read more...] about Chinese Lanterns mistaken for red distress flares