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New Year's fireworks put wolves at risk

Loud fireworks can endanger wolves at Big Oak Wolf Sanctuary in Green Cove Springs.
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Loud fireworks can endanger wolves at Big Oak Wolf Sanctuary in Green Cove Springs.

Ringing in the new year with the sounds of loud bangs from fireworks is a yearly tradition.

But to Big Oak Wolf Sanctuary in Green Cove Springs, continuous hours of loud fireworks could, once again, endanger the lives of the animals.

“When you have a sound that’s loud and continuous and also shakes the ground, they think the world is coming to an end,” said John Knight, owner of the sanctuary.

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner News4Jax.