Many American towns are ending July 4th fireworks traditions after funds to pay for them are growing increasingly scarce.

Coalinga, California canceled its celebration “to save money,” ABC 30 reports. It cost about $15,000 a year.

“To be fiscally responsible in our community, this is something we had to do,” city council member Ron Landers says. “It’s a necessary evil.”

He tells the news station it was basically a decision between celebrating America and job cuts.

“When you’re looking at cutting people’s jobs or potential layoffs, I would rather not see fireworks than see some employee not have a job,” he says.

Meanwhile, residents and visitors of Shiocton, Wisconsin will have to find another way to celebrate Independence Day, too.

Fire Chief Butch Bunnell tells WBAY the village is “Just short of the funds and without funds you can’t have the fireworks. We didn’t want to do this but if you don’t have the proper funds then there is no use.”

And visitors to Colonial Williamsburg will see fireworks this year, but without the patriotic music that has accompanied them for so long.

“Hearing the patriotic songs with the symphony under the stars at Colonial Williamsburg was really wonderful,” Amber Kennedy of the Peninsula Fine Arts Center tells the Newport News Daily Press.

“I thought it was magical.”

The Virginia Symphony, which cost about $50,000, played patriotic songs while the fireworks were touched off — but not this year after the city belatedly announced it couldn’t help much.

“The symphony had a deadline, and we had 20 days to raise the money,” according to Bert Aaron, who launched the campaign to raise the funds privately. “We just couldn’t do it.”

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore’s town canceled its fireworks celebration again this year after running afoul of federal rules last year.

9&10 News reported:

“Organizers didn’t comply with a federal rule, so now the holiday tradition has to be canceled. The rule states that when anyone buys shells and fireworks, they have to be brought to town the day of the show. They cannot be moved ahead of time and left overnight,” Fox 32 reported.

The rule was reportedly changed after the Boston bombings.

Resident Douglas Colwell told the news station the July 4th fireworks show has happened every year since the early 1900s.