SAN ANTONIO -- Bexar County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to ban two types of aerial fireworks before the upcoming Independence Day holiday.

The order specifically banned the use or sale of skyrockets with sticks and missiles with fins in any part of unincorporated Bexar County.

Area firefighters said they've been worried about the possibility for large grass fires with the region's current drought condition and the massive amount of calls firefighters responded to during the New Year's holiday.

County officials are encouraging people to use one of the six fireworks safe zones in the county this holiday.

"What we want to do is move people into prescribed areas," Precinct 3 County Commissioner Lyle Larson said. "And have the volunteer fire departments in and around those areas that are set up and discourage people from shooting them off of roadways (or) on to people's property.

"That's our biggest concern," he said. "It was a nightmare what happened New Year's Eve and we just don't want to replicate that."

Bexar County firefighters responded to 199 calls on New Year's Eve, according to county officials.