Celebrating America seems to be getting harder to do these days.

Leaders of Berlin, New Jersey recently announced they were canceling the July 4th fireworks display for “safety reasons.”

Mayor Phyllis Magazzu claims it was combination of two factors: other towns had canceled their celebrations, resulting in increased Berlin crowds, and Magazzu’s display was just so “spectacular.”

The mayor says “drunken fights ensued, bottles were thrown, and finally both towns decided that enough was enough,” Philly Mag reports.

She also claims “many incidences of showing disrespect to police throughout our country” led her to cancel her town’s fireworks.

“We haven’t had those kinds of problems quite to the point that you see in some towns,” Magazzu says. “But unfortunately, society now, they kind of test you to see how far you can go, and if something like that happened during the fireworks, that could be a big problem.”

Meanwhile, a number of events are canceled in California due to drought conditions.

Cambria became the third town to end fireworks displays this year, following Morro Bay and Paso Robles.

“Cambria’s show was canceled Monday after representatives from American Legion Post No. 432, the fire department and other officials agreed that holding a fireworks show this year would be irresponsible,” The Cambrian reports, due to the dry conditions.

City leaders aren’t messing around.

“We cannot tolerate any fireworks activity at all,” Cambria Fire Chief Mark Miller tells the paper. “If we hear of anybody lighting fireworks, we’ll be out putting an end to it and making sure they’re arrested. There’ll be absolutely no leeway whatsoever in these drought and fire-danger conditions we have now.”

Last year, Torch Lake, Michigan – now the home of progressive filmmaker Michael Moore – was forced to cancel its celebration after running afoul of federal regulations.

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.