LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln City Council will consider a proposal next week to ban flying lanterns — or what Public Safety Director Tom Casady calls “flying bags of fire.”

Councilman Roy Christensen proposed the ban, and that Bill Moody, the city’s chief fire inspector, supports it.

The fire department has reported numerous fires over the past few years started by the flying lanterns, which are small paper air balloons powered by a flame.

That includes a fire last year started by a flying lantern when it landed on the roof of a townhouse in the Williamsburg neighborhood, causing about $260,000 in damage.

Christensen’s proposal would ban the sale and use of the paper lanterns within city limits.