Dallas Cracks Down on July 4 Chaos | Texas News

Texas News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 2, 2026 · 1m

Dallas is cracking down hard this Fourth of July weekend to avoid the chaos of last year’s New Year’s Eve fireworks fiasco—when roads turned into parking lots and emergency crews got stuck. Starting Friday and Saturday nights at 9 p.m., key roads around major event zones will be shut down to keep traffic off interstates and service lanes. Police are also ramping up patrols in hotspots like Highland Hills and Dixon Circle, targeting illegal celebratory gunfire—over 12,000 calls this year alone. Don’t shoot guns in the air, and don’t park on highways—this year, enforcement is serious and…