Watch: New Year's Eve fireworks light up the downtown Austin sky

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Just this week, Austin-Travis County health leaders made the call to move back to Stage 4 of its COVID-19 risk-based guidelines because of a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
City leaders are now asking people to take precautions this weekend and celebrate the new year safely, and those recommendations include watching the city's fireworks from afar.
"If the numbers continue to get worse in our city because people are not doing it voluntarily then we’re go